Foreign education in Egypt from the beginning of the nineteenth century until 1922

Abstract

This study showed the emergence of foreign education in Egypt and its development in quantity and quality, and presented the types that appeared in Egypt, and the impact of both the French and British occupation on it, and the impact of those foreign cultures on the Egyptian environment in terms of economic, political and social aspects, and the most important educational characteristics of foreign education in terms of curricula, courses, exams and teaching staff, and the relationship of that education to the country's political and social conditions during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the evolution of the Egyptian government's attempts to supervise, Arabize and organize it.

Foreign schools appeared in Egypt as distinguished educational institutions as a result of the aid they received from the rulers of Egypt, in addition to what they received from their foreign governments, in addition, it meant the support of the Egyptian bourgeois class because its interests are linked to the interests of those countries, and it is a bad line - as Taha Hussein says - that foreign education in its entirety becomes more useful and richer than the official Egyptian education - in the eyes of many - in terms of the level of education and employment, this is what made many Egyptians able to enroll their children in it out of consent and choice, but rather out of love and altruism, until it began to spread and the demand for it increased, and middle-class people joined it despite their inability to bear its costs, nevertheless, they insisted on enduring that financial exhaustion because of their perception of those schools and the prosperous future they would set for their children.