Saeed Rashid
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Saeed Rashid, PP, (20 January 1927 – 19 June 1999) was a writer, teacher, and historian from Pakistan.
Life[]
Education and Pakistan Movement[]
At the age of four years, four months, and four days the tradition of Bismillah was performed. Then a sickness delayed his studies for six months, thus the formal beginning of his education was roughly in the sixth year. This included the study of Qaida i Baghdadi, Aamd Nama, Quran, and Raah i Nijaat (a book of Ethics).[citation needed] For Primary Education he attended Kotwali. From 4th to Intermediate class he studied at Islamia Inter College Bareilly. This school was the product of Syed Ahmad Khan's educational movement.[citation needed]
In his youth Bareilly was the center of the Pakistan Movement. Along with the Muslim League many political parties were in motion. There, he listened to the leaders of Congress Party, Nehru and Gandhi. He also attended the addresses of Attaullah Shah Bukhari and Zafar Ali Khan. In 1942, he finally had the opportunity to hear Quaid-e-Azam.[citation needed]
In 1949, after taking his exam for MA Previous Urdu he enrolled in Teacher Training College, Aligarh Muslim University. Although well acquainted with Aligarh, formally this was his first year there. He now had teachers such as Zakir Hussain, Hadi Hassan, Ghulam-us-Sayyadain, Rasheed Ahmed Siddique, and Hahib-ur-Rehman. He took special inspiration from Syed Ahmad Khan's mission and the Pakistan Movement which were enriched in this environment.[citation needed] When he topped university's B.T. exam it was thought very likely he would get a PhD scholarship in United States, however, his teacher Ishrat Hussain advised him that his destiny would be in Pakistan, not the US, and that he should not be carried away by the glitter of civil service.[citation needed] He told him that Pakistan needed teachers rather than officers, and that nations were made and broken in schools. Saeed Rashid followed his advice and came to Pakistan.[citation needed]
Military College Jhelum years[]
On 22 June 1950, he joined the Military College Jhelum.[citation needed] In the 1950s he was associated with Fine Arts Cultural Center. There he wrote and produced plays. From 1950, for several years he was associated with the editorship of the college magazine Tarbiyat (training). From 1965 to 1968 he was the library officer. From 1967 to 1985 he served as the House Master for Shair Shah House. In October 1974, he was appointed Director of the Research and Development Cell and in 1991 he became secretary of Alamgirians Society.
Later years[]
After retiring from Military College Jhelum in 1990, he joined Army Public School Jhelum and Mangla Cantt and served as its principal from 1990 to 1994.[citation needed] Afterward, he was director of Tameer-e-Millat Institute of Education and Research Islamabad and Director of Sultana Foundation Department of Character-building and Pakistaniat, Islamabad.[citation needed]
He died on 19 June 1999 at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Rawalpindi, after a protracted illness.[citation needed] He was 73 and left four daughters and two sons.[citation needed]
Major works[]
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Recognition[]
- Saeed Rashid Block: A new academic block was named after him at Military College Jhelum on 19 November 2000.[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Learning to Lead by Saeed Rashid
- ^ From School to College by Saeed Rashid
- ^ "MCJ College Buildings". Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2010.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
External links[]
- A Tribute to a teacher at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 October 2009), Military College Jhelum site
- M.C.J. Picture Gallery at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 October 2009), Military College Jhelum site
- Professor Saeed Rashid's Book Ilm-o-Amal, Alamgirian.org – The MCJ Website
- Renowned educationist passes away, PakSearch
- Aligarh Muslim University alumni
- Pakistani educational theorists
- Pakistani educators
- Pakistani historians
- Pakistani schoolteachers
- Pakistani scholars
- Pakistani writers
- Recipients of the Pride of Performance
- 1927 births
- People from Bareilly
- 1999 deaths
- Muhajir people
- 20th-century historians