I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
Interpretation
Bringing real-world experiences into the classroom enhances children's understanding of the world.
Queen Rania of Jordan emphasizes the importance of integrating real-life experiences and the broader world into education. By doing so, children can develop a deeper understanding of their environment and learn beyond traditional academic boundaries. This approach encourages curiosity, critical thinking, and engagement with the world around them, making learning more relevant and impactful.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to inspire colleagues during a professional development seminar.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
If you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.β An entire community - now that is really interesting! Then I found the quote changed a little more on the Kingdom of Jordan website by her Royal Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan during her interview with Oprah Winfrey. Queen Rania relates the quote in these words: βAs you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future.
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.
When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.
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