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The education kicked off in Kuwait as ‘a private education’ after the authority refused to contribute to the establishment of the Al- Mubarakiya as the first school of its kind, and it was named after the founder of modern Kuwait, Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah (1837-1915), and that was in the year 1912.
Education before that, even long after it was mostly rudimentary and was given through the Kottab (elementary school primarily used for teaching children in reading, writing, grammar and Islamic subjects, other practical and theoretical subjects were also often taught).
The initiative to build the Mubarakiya School started as a popular initiative, but those who adopted the idea collected only about 50,000 rupees for its construction, and it was thirty thousand rupees less than what was required.