Liberation war in textbooks
We have a glorious history of liberation war. Yet, our schools do not teach this chapter with much importance. The Bangla medium schools follow “Amar Boi” as the textbook up to class-7. Each part of this book includes a chapter on one of the seven Bir sreshthos. A few schools teach a little of 21st February, 26th March and 16th December as part of general knowledge. The English medium schools follow only the book given from the board, that is, “Amar Boi”. Our students grow up not knowing much on liberation war. It is sad that after 40 years of our great liberation war, we hear from a student of class-1 that a “clash” occurred between Bangladesh and Pakistan in 1971. But how can we blame that kid when we watched a video on Facebook after Pakistan won the match at ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, held at Mirpur stadium, where a young man said with delight, “That is past, we forgot it!” If this is the situation today, what will happen after ten or twenty years? The time has come to give our students a clear idea about the liberation war. We know that there is a book of only twenty pages written by Mohammad Zafar Iqbal named “Muktijuddher Itihash.” This book narrates all the important information about our liberation war in a fairly easy language. If this book is selected as a textbook in both Bangla and English medium schools at primary level, specifically in class-5, we can expect to save our next generations from disregarding our glorious past. Honourable Education Minister, will you please consider distributing this book along with all other textbooks?
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