Three Cups of Tea
A worthy goal. I just ordered the book, and sent a donation. IKAT
Countering terrorism with schools
Three Cups of Tea
A worthy goal. I just ordered the book, and sent a donation. IKAT
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
Re: Countering terrorism with schools
A step up from the normal fundamentalist school in the Middle East. You know those ones where U.S. and Israeli flags are painted on the floor at every doorway and the students are told to step on them. Not to mention the daily praising of past and present suicide bombers and all the glory they represent.
"There is a true glory and a true honor; the glory in duty done and the honor in the integrity of principle."
"The truth is this; the march of Providence so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often only see the ebb of the advancing wave. It is history which teaches us to hope."
Re: Countering terrorism with schools
It's good to see at least someone's thinking in the long term. This is very reassuring, and hopefully his example and the lessons he's learned along the way will spread.
Ajax
"I do not yet know how chivalry will fare in these calamitous times of ours." --- Don Quixote
"I have no words, my voice is in my sword." --- Shakespeare
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." --- Jack Handey
Re: Countering terrorism with schools
Education that is a long term benefit for all. Rather cool.
Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Pape for global overlord!!
Re: Countering terrorism with schools
Hay! Really glad to see people putting money where their mouth is.
It seems like a more than worthy endeavour too. Isn't amazing what one individual can accomplish with meagre resources while governments seldom seem to have a positive effect on situations like that.
Too bad we don't know some way to hook him up with Bill Gates, who gives a lot to education and school building projects.
Education: that which reveals to the wise,
and conceals from the stupid,
the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
Re: Countering terrorism with schools
What a marvellous initiative. I'm particularly impressed that he has managed to deal with the inevitable attack on his schooling of girls.
"We spend billions" on military efforts, says Mortenson, but "one dollar per kid per month would set up schools." His goal - which is essential to preventing a new generation of terrorists - is "to promote peace one school at a time."Education and peace. Worth a donation, duly sent.
Thanks Hosa, for the information.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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