to that from two standpoints: the standpoint of the government and the standpoint of the parents. From the first standpoint
...from changing the books in order to traffic in them, to please the authors.
Cortas: So long as we are in the experimental stage, the field will remain open for the selection of books, until the renaissance of improving the Arabic book reaches its zenith by attaining the level of the foreign book.
Yakan: And finally, what is to be done to lighten the dread of examinations, which our students in the upper classes must inevitably face, with all the disappointment and loss it brings in its train?
Here each of the two directresses held to her own opinion. Miss Dughan thought the government should place complete trust in the schools, so that, together with the parents, they would be independent in their judgment of any outside supervision. For example, what is done in some American states in the primary classes: the child and his parent are summoned to a meeting of the utmost simplicity with the teachers, during which it is decided, according to the opinion of all, whether the pupil is entitled to promotion to the higher class or not. And in either case this is done without any examination whatsoever!
Mrs. Cortas held the very opposite, citing what is done in Holland, Austria, and Germany: that the school should set its own questions and send them in an envelope to the government, which returns them to the school after study and consideration. "Hence I prefer to have others' help in judging my own pupils."
Shayboub: The government with the school, or the parents with
the school?
Yakan and Kanaan: The parents with the school!!!
Shayboub: It pleases me that the discussion should break up with the parents in agreement with the school! Or have I mistaken your meaning — have you two at last made your peace with the schools?!
Yakan: All that concerns parents in the matter of examinations is to ward off the psychological shocks that follow a wrong
ful, injurious failure, and the exposure of the pieces of our hearts to abnormal states, which have multiplied with the growing stuffing of curricula and grinding of brains. We place in school and government alike complete confidence in their judgment, if only the two of them watch over these points first and last.
And when I returned to my own two little ones, I thanked my Lord that examination time was still far away!
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