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Education as Tazkia: Is a child like a clean slate?
Education as Tazkia: Is a child like a clean slate? In the academic circles, one often hears the view of a child as “clean slate”, meaning there is nothing written on the slate, and unless we make sure that we write something “good”, as quickly as possible, others may spoil it by writing on it…
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Mocking Craftsmen and Business People
Mocking Craftsmen and Business People [This post was published in Daily Dawn in my letter to the editor Mocking Craftsmen 2013-08-13] I WOULD like to highlight the psychology and social history of the satirical comments doing the rounds in the media and on cellphones about President-elect Mamnoon Hussain’s links to the cloth and food business community of…
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What Inspires Me: Leadership Against All Odds
Jacqueline Novogratz CEO at Acumen Fund What Inspires Me: Leadership Against All Odds I may have to write several posts to answer this question. What inspires me? I think of beauty, generosity, a star-filled night to remind me of how connected we are in a vast universe – all of it inspires me. But let…