ABSTRACT
Education has a vital role in the supreme effort to preserve a society's cultunil identity and historical legacy. It supplies its members with a coherent frame of reference for the values held highly by that society. Here the concerns of the Muslims are not unique. Other societies and other cultures also have, from time to time, resisted the subversive efforts of education by alien civilizations on their cultures:
At the Treaty of Lancaster ,in Pennsylvania,anno 1744, between the Government of Virginia and the Six Nations ... the Commissioners from Virginia acquainted the Indians by a Speech, that there was at Williamsburg a College with Fund for Educating Indian youth; and that if the Six Nations would send down half a dozen of their young lads at that college, the Government would take care that they be well provided for, and instructed in all the learning of the White People. [The Indians' spokesman replied:]
'We know that you highly esteem the kind of Learning taught in those Colleges, and the Maintenance of our Young Men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinced, therefore, that you mean to do us Good by your Proposal; and we thank you heartily.
