:salam2: Brothers and Sisters,
I would like to share a similiar issue to Parents beating Kids.
In India the teachers who teach Quran (Tajweed and memorization) firmly believe that Children cannot be Taught Quran without a stick!
This is the attitude of the Quran Teachers is same across the Spectrum of Sects and "Schools of thoughts". From Barelvis to Deobandis and even Ahl E Hadees (Salafis). You would be hard pressed to find Madrasas where Stick is not used for teaching.
The only exception that I know of are new Schools that are coming up these days here (not Madrasas) where kids get Secular education as well as do Quran Memorization like the one opened by Dr.Zakir Naik, Dr. Bilal Phillips etc.
Personally, I have been beating a lot by Quran teachers when I was kid. And it has not changed in 20 years.
Recently, My Wife and me convinced our Maid to send his kid to our Masjid
so that he can Islaam and learn Quran, Only to find that the Kid is being beaten badly every few days!
I would like to narrate one more incident. My bro-in-law just completed his School education and is very much interested to do memorize Quran.
So I called up a friend who has studied in a Madrasa and is now studying in Madeenah University to know about admission in Madrasa etc.
He told me that he will get beaten very often because he is past peak time for Quran Memorization (since he is 15).
So he recommended sending him to Islamic studies course rather than Quran memorization.
I'm really very disturbed after these experiences.
And once again let me point that beating Kids for Memorizing Quran is same in Madrasas across all "Sects" and Schools of thought .
I would like to share a similiar issue to Parents beating Kids.
In India the teachers who teach Quran (Tajweed and memorization) firmly believe that Children cannot be Taught Quran without a stick!
This is the attitude of the Quran Teachers is same across the Spectrum of Sects and "Schools of thoughts". From Barelvis to Deobandis and even Ahl E Hadees (Salafis). You would be hard pressed to find Madrasas where Stick is not used for teaching.
The only exception that I know of are new Schools that are coming up these days here (not Madrasas) where kids get Secular education as well as do Quran Memorization like the one opened by Dr.Zakir Naik, Dr. Bilal Phillips etc.
Personally, I have been beating a lot by Quran teachers when I was kid. And it has not changed in 20 years.
Recently, My Wife and me convinced our Maid to send his kid to our Masjid
so that he can Islaam and learn Quran, Only to find that the Kid is being beaten badly every few days!
I would like to narrate one more incident. My bro-in-law just completed his School education and is very much interested to do memorize Quran.
So I called up a friend who has studied in a Madrasa and is now studying in Madeenah University to know about admission in Madrasa etc.
He told me that he will get beaten very often because he is past peak time for Quran Memorization (since he is 15).
So he recommended sending him to Islamic studies course rather than Quran memorization.
I'm really very disturbed after these experiences.
And once again let me point that beating Kids for Memorizing Quran is same in Madrasas across all "Sects" and Schools of thought .