Calls for Promoting the Educational System and Developing a National Charter

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Sunday, July 6th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Participants in the Ramadan Council titled United in Prosperity “Prosperity through Innovation,” organized by the Ministry of Interior, represented by the Law Respect Culture Bureau at the General Secretariat of the Office of HH Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Interior, and hosted by Dr. Jammal Hussein Al Samiti Judge and Director General of the Judicial Institute at his council in Dubai, recommended developing the education system by focusing on the early beginnings of creativity and planting them as a social and mental value among our youth. They also encouraged putting more interest in promoting vocational education, developing it and form committees in schools to focus on the importance of excellence in the vocational field and its importance in building a professional generation of UAE youth. The participants also called for considering volunteer work a main part of the social values ecosystem, which will constitute an introduction to broaden the youth’s horizons towards being creative in all fields.

They stresses that creativity requires interest in developing the spirit of reading and performing scientific research in young generations, which is the role to be played by the educational institutions, homes and the government. The Participants called for creating a national charter to encourage the values of loyalty and linking those values to innovation and country serving through scientific and practical achievements. They also highlighted the importance of collaboration between the governmental institutions to move from the material prosperity phase into intellectual prosperity and productivity phase by making our community an intellectually productive one.

The council was inaugurated by media personality Ali bin Saloum. He welcomed the guests and said that the Law Respect Culture Bureau as a representative of the Ministry of Interior is opening the third season of Ramadan Councils. He noted that the aim is to promote the law respect culture, as well as spreading social and intellectual awareness on the importance of the cohesion between the leadership and the people in carrying out the UAE 2021 vision.

Participants of the council included: Mohamed Ahmed Al Haddad, legal adviser; Dr. Jamal Galdari, a judge; Umair bin Umair, a businessman; Mohamed bin Sultan; Jasim Al Naqbi, lawyer; Ibrahim Saif Al Shamsi; Dr. Faisal Al Besher, of the Dubai Police General Headquarters.

Participants discussed a number of aspects, including how to elevate individuals in the UAE society, through the advanced prosperity and financial structure provided by the government in all fields during the coming two decades. They said that this is accomplished through education and how to move from the complete material needs phase to the intellectual needs phase in the UAE society, and how to implant the values of self-accountability and self-supervision in the individuals.

The participants mentioned that there is a youth segment that needs to change its way of thinking from focusing on material needs to the stage of intellectual creativity especially that material needs are no longer at the center of interest for Emirati citizens. They said that one form of creativity could be the interest in changing and developing some laws such as replacing the imprisonment sentences for the youth with alternative penalties.

They explained that the UAE was ranked first in the Arab world on the happiness index, which is an indicator to the importance of prosperity as an introduction to creativity. They noted that creativity is embodied by the existence of active scientists, writers and scholars at the national and international levels in the UAE society.

The participants asked few questions such as: did the UAE provide its citizens with the basic material needs? Can we name the UAE “the Creative State” in light of the welfare and prosperity means it provides to encourage creativity; and did the time for its citizens to start the race of creativity arrive? Are material luxury a blessing or an affliction, and which is more important: material success or intellectual creativity? Do we need a national charter that encourages creativity?

The participants raised a number of topics that focused on the following: “In the UAE we work and produce materially and intellectually, thus we deserve luxury and prosperity,” “A creative person is a distinguished one, and the UAE embraces all creative people and provides them with what they need to work and be creative,” and “We have to change the negative image of the concept of luxury in the minds of our youth in order to enable them serve their country creatively.”

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