Free Education is the first step toward a better nation!!!

“Human Rights, Article 26.

1.    Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be FREE, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages.”

It’s been over 50 years and our governments throughout all these years haven’t noticed the word FREE yet! Or even worse, I think they haven’t noticed the word EDUCATION!!!

Some may argue with me about this issue, claiming that government schools in Jordan are everywhere and tuition fees are insignificant for the elementary stages –somewhere around 10 JDs a year. Well, shut up!

I’ve been there! I attended government schools all up to high school; I can’t be selfish and deny all the teachers and the canteen boys their good efforts, they did a pretty good job all around. But when it comes to teaching and creating generation after another to work and lead in this country, they were all rubbish!

Let’s examine the great battle between Free and Private education? For a lot bigger amount of money paid every year you can send your kids to a private school where they will go to a school so far away from home that a fancy bus full of germs and under-cover-mucus will deliver your them both ways and deprive them from the joy and the great benefits of walking. They will wear a decent uniform and carry a lunch box everyday to the school without being beaten twice by other bullies –one for the contents of the box and the other is to take the box frankly. They will not carry a small bottle to survive the school-day since none of the water taps are working, or mostly missing! The classes will be mixed with other gender creature called “girls” so the kids will have all those years to get used to look at them and deal with them as human beings instead of spending the first year of college like a wild beast in its heat season or like a teen flipping the pages of an erotic, yet 3D now, magazine you recall from your 7th grade!  And by the age of 18 they will leave school, thrilled and full of happiness and excitement to face a new era! Instead of that troubled and confused feeling of happiness a government school graduate go through at the same stage! 

I've never been convicted with a crime or done any time, but I'm pretty sure spending 18 years in the joint and then heading out for the first time will have the exact same feeling. There’s only one way to describe it: “now what?!”

There is also beating! Having your kids in a private school means that you, while working like an android 7 days a week trying to collect enough money for those little bastards, can make sure they return home safe and clean. But this also mean that they will master the art of swearing, play during classes and learn the worst attitude possible and later on blow it all up your face when you don’t have enough money to buy them a PS3. At least you can make sure they will return home safe and spoiled! Isn't that what matters?!!

I can recall every single time I got beaten with a big stick or a water hose by one of the teachers. Every single one of them! Especially the ones during winter! But apart from being late to school or not wearing that ugly bag they called “Uniform” I can’t recall a single idea what they were for!

So as you may have noticed here, Free-Education does exist. For a tiny donation on each kid every year the government will provide you with a day-shelter for your potential astronauts and engineering little geniuses so they don’t get lost during the day while you are out doing whatever you do. And if you have enough money in your pockets, they can attend a better school, develop better minds, plan better future and…..well, they won't carry a bottle of water to survive school like soldiers in the battlefield for God’s sake!