(Lynne O’Donnell – Lowy The Interpreter) Let’s imagine, for a moment, that tomorrow the Taliban reopen Afghanistan’s schools and, after five years, allow girls to return to their classrooms. The decision would be greeted as a historic breakthrough and, by many governments, as the implicit condition for recognising the Taliban as the legitimate government. It would also come too late. While diplomats, aid agencies and activists have spent all this time – some even counting(Opens in new window) the days – demanding the return of girls to formal schooling, the Taliban have been quietly constructing an entirely different education system. According to a new study(Opens in new window), corroborated by reporting from inside Afghanistan, schools and teacher-training colleges have been converted into madrassas, curricula rewritten, and millions of boys enrolled in education designed to produce a generation shaped in the movement’s own ideological image.
Kabul’s classrooms, rebuilt in the Taliban’s own image | Lowy Institute
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