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u/islamchump · 2 pointsr/MuslimMarriage
  • The Great Indian Obsession: The Untold Story of India's Engineers

    this idea can be pretty much translated into any other colonized region

    REVIEW

    >The great Indian obsession portrays the journey of engineering in India right from its advent to the present time where engineering degree and IT jobs have become the biggest obsession among the Indians. For middle-class household, an engineering degree is a ticket to a better life and reputation in society.

    >Apart from its benefit, the author has highlighted many detrimental side effects of this obsession. There is undue pressure on young shoulders to be amongst toppers both from parents and society. Failure in doing so many times results in depression, the stigma of looser and in extreme situation suicide as well which is becoming increasingly common.
    >The obsession for engineering has led to the advent of flourishing coaching industry in India to crack the competitive exams. The author has written in detail about the beginning of coaching centers and its rise and rise.
    >The book also brings out the darker side of the Indian education system. Pathetic government school conditions, expensive private schools, and colleges, donations, the uselessness of primary education, flourishing tuition centers, reservation issue, the importance of caste over merit.
    It's a hard-hitting book and an eye-opener. The book does not dissuade from pursuing an engineering degree, but the author just wants from parents and society not to crush the dreams and aspirations of young ones only for better financial health.
    It's a must-read book.

  • What is Education For article (long)

    >education has no clear purpose. That’s not a criticism; it’s just an observation that there are numerous conflicting visions of what education is “for.” What are we actually trying to do for kids by making them go to school, and why are we trying to do it? If it’s an attempt to help kids understand things they’ll need to know in their daily lives, much of contemporary education makes little sense: Very few of us will use chemistry or algebra or French. But it would be very helpful to know how to cook a good breakfast, negotiate a pay raise, or defuse an argument. If education is about making “model citizens,” well, we would probably expect civics to be treated in a little less cursory a fashion. Maybe education is about teaching job skills, providing abilities that will prove useful in making a living. Maybe it nourishes souls and expands horizons. Maybe it’s just a way to keep as many kids as possible in a room together and therefore out of trouble. Or maybe it doesn’t do much of anything at all.

  • [The Case Against Education
    Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money]
    (https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste-ebook/dp/B076ZY8S8J)

    >Despite being immensely popular--and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity—in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee. Learn why students hunt for easy As and casually forget most of what they learn after the final exam, why decades of growing access to education have not resulted in better jobs for the average worker but instead in runaway credential inflation, how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely if ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy.

    >Caplan draws on the latest social science to show how the labor market values grades over knowledge, and why the more education your rivals have, the more you need to impress employers. He explains why graduation is our society's top conformity signal, and why even the most useless degrees can certify employability. He advocates two major policy responses. The first is educational austerity. The government needs to sharply cut education funding to curb this wasteful rat race. The second is more vocational education because practical skills are more socially valuable than teaching students how to outshine their peers.

    >Romantic notions about education being "good for the soul" must yield to careful research and common sense—The Case against Education points the way.

  • Schooling In Capitalist America: Educational Reform And The Contradictions Of Economic Life

    >Noted radical economists point out that lack of equal opportunity in American education is a reflection of the weaknesses of capitalism and offer guidelines for the implementation of a more democratic, egalitarian system.

  • savage inequalities

    >For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening—and it has widened since. The urban schools he visited were overcrowded and understaffed and lacked the basic elements of learning—including books and, all too often, classrooms for the students.
    In Savage Inequalities, Kozol delivers a searing examination of the extremes of wealth and poverty and calls into question the reality of equal opportunity in our nation’s schools.

  • [Meritocracy in Our Society Is a Lie - Genes Reveal It's Better to Be Born Rich Than Talented](https://www.scien
    cealert.com/genetics-reveals-being-rich-gives-you-a-better-chance-at-graduating-uni-than-being-talented)

    >The least-gifted children of high-income parents graduate from college at higher rates than the most-gifted children of low-income parents.

  • Eclipse of Reason because this book is very technical and has nothing to do with education straightforward

    I'm not gonna link it but, it mentions something in passing that relates to college students

    >“The idolization of progress leads to the opposite of progress,” this is his claim


    >The objective mind pervades social life in all its branches. We worship industry, technology, and nationality without making sense of these categories.

    the objective here means focusing on the ends, so it would make sense to pump out as much product as you can cheaply for max profit

    Subjective on the other hand focuses on the means, so the goal is mass production but is it a good idea to do it without thinking about the impact on the environment? this is where people would argue for green energy which is the subjective mind

    however, everyone is thinking with an objective mind, so green energy is off the table because earlier he mentions truth is reduced only as a tool of assessing (control of nature) bascially productivity and science (by science he means, by adding acid and a base we can get a salt and h2o if i remember chemistry correctly), so we are unable to argue about the truth of environmental care because our idea of truth cannot be used in that means. clear example is climate change, science proves climate change is real, but people in positions of power who can do the most about it (companies who mass produce) argue it will hamper productivity and profit (objective mind truth).

    he also mentions that this way of thinking led to an unoriginal lifestyle

    >The idea of happiness has been reduced to a banality to coincide with leading the kind of normal life that serious religious thought has often criticized.

    its also important to mention, the normal life, is sold to us by mass media and the culture industry, bascially people on TV and Ads, social media tell you what is the normal life of happiness one should pursue. the pursuit of this lifestyle is costly so you have to be able to make yourself a skilled worker in order to get enough money to live the happy life, this leads into the next quote

    >...Economic significance today is measured in usefulness to the structure of power, not the needs of all.
    The individual must prove their worth to one of the groups in engaged in the struggle for control of the economy.

    This bascially says that your value to people/society is based on how "useful" you are to current power structure, and you must compete with people to prove your worth to a company so that the company competes for you in the global scales of things to provide for you so that you can live that normal life that is critized heavily by religious thought, that is if you are deem worthy to them compared to all the other competiting individuals seeking that job


    Horkhiemer would argue at the end of the day the same mindset that students have, who compete with one another to display economic signifigance, are similar to those in position of power who deny climate change due to productivity issues. why? because your usefulness to society is how you can help prop up the existing power structures, not how you can fight climate change which is a needs of all people. you prove your worth to such power structures so you can live the happy normal life dictated by you mass media and social media.


u/sunlighttt · 5 pointsr/MuslimMarriage

I'm new here! Hey! Today started out very sweetly, had cake for breakfast, ha! It had berries, so technically healthy.

I was finally able to order the memoir, "First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story". It came out 2-3 days ago and is about a young Muslim girl going through the arranged marriage process in the West, the couple's journey and a look at life after marriage. I have yet to start reading, but hope to before the year is out. This story almost reminds me of the modern day Muslim version of novels by the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen, which I read as an adolescent. Can't wait!!

On another note, Fantastic Beasts 2 is out, wohooo!

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/MuslimMarriage

https://www.amazon.com/Treatment-Stomach-Sexual-Organs-Islamic-ebook/dp/B0073W9XPQ

3 bucks for a beautiful and a soul wrenching book. Here is a passage:


> The object of fasting is the reduction of the carnal appetite so that the heart, liberated from the annoyance of the carnal appetites , becomes purified and the abode of remembrance; for when the heart is filled with carnal appetite, it is not possible to remember (Him); nor does (the remembrance) affect one. The object of the greater pilgrimage , which is a visit to the House of God, is the remembrance of the Lord of that House and the incitement of longing for meeting Him.

And another:

> The sign of hunger is that one be eager for bread without sauce or stew and that one can eat all bread made of barley or millet eagerly. When one looks for stew , the hunger is no longer genuine. Most of the Companions did not exceed half a mudd. There were some whose food was one sa‘ 15— a sa‘ is four mudds—and when they were eating dates, a sa’ and a half, because of the date stones which are discarded.

u/penshavebeenlifted · 12 pointsr/MuslimMarriage

Credit for link goes to another user comment but wanted to share this as it’s own post. And provide original source as pdf :Premarital Questionnaire

The questions were compiled by Imam Magid, who’s done so many great things it’d be hard to even summarize them. But high on that list is helping authoring “Before You Tie The Knot, A Guide for Couples” By Salma Elkadi Abugideiri, Imam Mohamed Hag Magid

Also interested to see why anyone would be opposed to going over and answering these with serious potentials.

u/lallahawa · 1 pointr/MuslimMarriage

Glad to help! Here's the book btw!

u/nun4321 · 1 pointr/MuslimMarriage

This is a perfect example of what this book talk about: https://www.amazon.com/Do-Have-Give-Loved-You/dp/1568387962

Don’t give up! Inshallah your mountain climbing Muslim man is out there!

u/shoe-dodger · 2 pointsr/MuslimMarriage

I couldn't find one with subtitles, but I'll look again when my mom comes so she can help me with the arabic typing.

I did find out it's a book!

https://www.amazon.com/Want-Get-Married-Misadventures-Technicolor/dp/0292723970

u/BoatsMcFloats · 1 pointr/MuslimMarriage

Asalam Alakum - Learning how to talk to someone, especially of the opposite gender, takes experience and understanding. TAnd that takes time. The best thing you can do right now is read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Men-Mars-Women-Venus-Understanding/dp/0060574216

u/UmmAlMuladhat · 11 pointsr/MuslimMarriage

I wrote this book precisely for people like you! I'm working on a companion book for men and also have a revised edition for the original book forthcoming.

u/FriendsWithTheBook · 2 pointsr/MuslimMarriage

theres a book done by an american historian called the blood telegram

pretty dope book

u/mojaam · 3 pointsr/MuslimMarriage

Amazon has it for $20 https://amzn.to/2IduhHg and the it's by Salma Elkadi Abugideiri LPC and Imam Mohamed Hag Magid