PM: A comprehensive plan needed to reduce illiteracy

INA – BAGHDAD
 
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi directed on Wednesday, to develop a comprehensive plan to combat illiteracy.
 
“We celebrate this day, on the International Literacy Day, which would promote everything that preserves human rights through science and education,” said Al-Kadhimi according to a statement by the Media Office of the Prime Minister in his speech during meeting a number of educators on the occasion of the International Literacy Day, as it was received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
 
Al-Kadhimi pointed out that "despite the huge number of illiterates in the world, it is painful to find among the Iraqis those who cannot read nor write. It is unreasonable for there to be illiterate people in a land that created stationery thousands of years ago,"
 
"In the Iraq of civilization, it is necessary to create an educational process worthy of this great name who taught the world writing and gave it letters at a time when the earth became silent in this regard,” he added.
 
He directed the Ministry of Education to develop a comprehensive and studied plan to combat illiteracy on a comprehensive national scale, “especially as we are facing an ongoing population increase in Iraq that requires scientific and rapid treatments to support education,"
 
"Ignorance and illiteracy create an environment for extremism, social diseases, crimes and other pests of society," Al-Kadhimi noted, "there is a failure in education that has created an atmosphere of ignorance, crises, acceptance of wrong ideas, and absurd wars that produced a complex environment with the disappearance of interest in education and health,"
 
The Prime Minister explained that “We must take correct steps to support the Ministry of Education and the educational staff by providing them with a worthy life to perform their duty in the best way. We must be among the countries that are looking for a better educational future for themselves and their children,"