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Am for: Move past "multipolarity". To unity and diversity. Respect and dignity for all people (all nations).
Al Qur'an - 49:13: Sahih International: O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted. (To 49:18 if you want.)
Win without violence (is best). (To) Win in the domain of ideals and ideals - the ideological arena or as how Shiekh Asrar Rashad puts it "The Intellectual Intafada". To win over people, and actually be of the people (of the world). The oppressed the downtrodden. The Prophet Muhammad said not to look at the people who have more than you but to look at the people who have less.
1: Belief
…”He (the angel Gabriel (“Jibril”) (Alayhi Wa Sallam) said, “Now tell me about faith.” He Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam replied, “It means that you should believe in God, His angels, His books, His apostles, and the last day, and that you should believe in the decreeing both of good and evil." Remarking that he had spoken the truth, he, Alayhi Wa Sallam, then said, “Now tell me about doing good." He, Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam, replied, “It means that you should worship God as though you saw Him, for He sees you though you do not see Him."”…
Muslim transmitted it.
Grade: Sahīh (Zubair `Aliza'i) صَحِيح (الألباني) حكم :
صحیح (زبیر علی زئی)
Reference : Mishkat al-Masabih 2
In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 1
3: “Perfection of Faith”:
He (the Angel Gabrial), Alayhi Wa Sallam, also said that he asked the Prophet what was the most excellent aspect of faith, and received the reply, “That you should love for God’s sake, hate for God’s sake, and employ your tongue in making mention of God.” “What more, messenger of God?” he asked, Alayhi Wa Sallam, and was told, “That you should like other people to have what you like yourself, and dislike that they should have what you dislike yourself.”
Ahmad transmitted it.
وَعَن معَاذ أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ أَفْضَلِ الْإِيمَانِ قَالَ: «أَنْ تُحِبَّ لِلَّهِ وَتُبْغِضَ لِلَّهِ وَتُعْمِلَ لِسَانَكَ فِي ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ قَالَ وماذا يَا رَسُول الله قَالَ وَأَن تحب للنَّاس مَا تحب لنَفسك وَتَكْرَهُ لَهُمْ مَا تَكْرَهُ لِنَفْسِكَ» . رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ
Grade: Isnād Da'īf (Zubair `Aliza'i) لم تتمّ دراسته (الألباني) حكم :
إسنادہ ضعيف (زبیر علی زئی)
Reference : Mishkat al-Masabih 48
In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 44
3c:
Sunan Ibn Majah » The Book of the Sunnah - كتاب المقدمة
It was narrated from Anas bin Malik that:
"The Messenger of Allah (Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam) said: 'None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother" or he said "for his neighbor, what he loves for himself."
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ قَتَادَةَ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ " لاَ يُؤْمِنُ أَحَدُكُمْ حَتَّى يُحِبَّ لأَخِيهِ - أَوْ قَالَ لِجَارِهِ - مَا يُحِبُّ لِنَفْسِهِ " .
Grade: Sahih (Darussalam)
Reference : Sunan Ibn Majah 66
In-book reference : Introduction, Hadith 66
English translation : Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 66
17:
Narrated Jarir bin `Abdullah:
Allah's Apostle said, "Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to mankind."
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ، وَأَبِي، ظَبْيَانَ عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " لاَ يَرْحَمُ اللَّهُ مَنْ لاَ يَرْحَمُ النَّاسَ ".
Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 7376
In-book reference : Book 97, Hadith 6
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 9, Book 93, Hadith 473 (deprecated numbering scheme)
--------------May Allah save us from hypocrisy and the torment of the fire.
"
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life.
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2: Islam
Mu‘adh b. Jabal Radi’ Allahu Anhu reported:
I Radi’ Allahu Anhu said, “Inform me, messenger of God, of an act which will cause me to enter paradise and remove me far from hell.” He Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Salla replied, “You have asked a serious question, but it is easy for the one whom God helps to answer it. Worship God, associate nothing with Him, observe the prayer, pay the zakat, fast during Ramadan, and make the Pilgrimage to the House.” He, Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam, said, “Shall I not guide you to the gateways of what is good? Fasting is a protection, and almsgiving extinguishes sin as water extinguishes fire, and a man's prayer in the middle of the night [has the same effect].” Then he recited, Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam, “Withdrawing themselves from their couches ... they have been doing.” 1 Then he Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam said, “Shall I not guide you to the head and support of the matter and the top of its hump?” I replied, “Yes, messenger of God.” He, Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam, said, “The head of the matter is Islam, its support is prayer, and the top of its hump is jihad.” Then he, Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam, said, “Shall I not inform you of the controlling of all that?” I replied, “Yes, Prophet of God.” So he Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam took hold of his tongue and said, “Restrain this.” I asked, “Prophet of God, shall we really be punished for what we talk about?” He, Sall’Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam, replied, “I am surprised at you,2 Mu'adh! Will anything but the harvests of their tongues overthrow men in hell on their faces (or, on their nostrils)?”
Ahmad, Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it.
1 Quran, xxxii, 16f.
2 Literally, may your mother be bereft of you.
عَن معَاذ بن جبل قَالَ كُنْتُ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي سفر فَأَصْبَحت يَوْمًا قَرِيبا مِنْهُ وَنحن نسير فَقلت يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَخْبِرْنِي بِعَمَلٍ يُدْخِلُنِي الْجَنَّةَ وَيُبَاعِدنِي عَن النَّار قَالَ لقد سَأَلتنِي عَن عَظِيمٍ وَإِنَّهُ لِيَسِيرٌ عَلَى مَنْ يَسَّرَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ تَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ وَلَا تُشْرِكُ بِهِ شَيْئًا وَتُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةَ وَتُؤْتِيَ الزَّكَاةَ وَتَصُومَ رَمَضَانَ وَتَحُجَّ الْبَيْت ثُمَّ قَالَ أَلَا أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى أَبْوَابِ الْخَيْرِ الصَّوْمُ جُنَّةٌ وَالصَّدَقَةُ تُطْفِئُ الْخَطِيئَةُ كَمَا يُطْفِئُ المَاء النَّار وَصَلَاة الرجل من جَوف اللَّيْل قَالَ ثمَّ تَلا (تَتَجَافَى جنُوبهم عَن الْمضَاجِع) حَتَّى بَلَغَ (يَعْمَلُونَ) ثُمَّ قَالَ أَلَا أَدُلُّكَ بِرَأْس الْأَمر كُله وَعَمُودِهِ وَذِرْوَةِ سَنَامِهِ قُلْتُ بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ رَأْسُ الْأَمْرِ الْإِسْلَامُ وَعَمُودُهُ الصَّلَاةُ وَذِرْوَةُ سَنَامِهِ الْجِهَادُ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَلَا أُخْبِرُكَ بِمِلَاكِ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ قُلْتُ بَلَى يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ فَأَخَذَ بِلِسَانِهِ فَقَالَ كُفَّ عَلَيْكَ هَذَا فَقُلْتُ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ وَإِنَّا لَمُؤَاخَذُونَ بِمَا نتكلم بِهِ فَقَالَ ثَكِلَتْكَ أُمُّكَ يَا مُعَاذُ وَهَلْ يَكُبُّ النَّاسَ فِي النَّارِ عَلَى وُجُوهِهِمْ أَوْ عَلَى مَنَاخِرِهِمْ إِلَّا حَصَائِدُ أَلْسِنَتِهِمْ. رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَالتِّرْمِذِيُّ وَابْنُ مَاجَه
Grade: Isnād Hasan (Zubair `Aliza'i) إسنادہ حسن (زبیر علی زئی) حكم :
Reference : Mishkat al-Masabih 29
In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 27
Good reminder --- >
Don Miquel Ruiz's "The Four Agreements:
1. Be impeccable with your word. - Speak with integrity. Avoid speaking against yourself or gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
2. Don't take anything personally. - Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own relaity, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
3. Don't make assumptions. - Find the courage to ask questions and to express [yourself] what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.
4. Always do your best. - Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse, and regret.
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49:18: Sahih International: Indeed, Allah knows the unseen [aspects] of the heavens and the earth. And Allah is Seeing of what you do.
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In his August 8th, 2011 Google Talk, Psychologist Barry Schwarz discussed content from his then new book, Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing.
In his talk, entitled, "Practical Wisdom According to Aristotle," he specifically described phronesis or practical wisdom as:
- When and how to make the exception to the rule
- When and how to improvise
- How to mind the mean
- How to choose among conflicting virtues
- How to take another perspective
- How a wise person uses moral skills in pursuit of the right aims; to serve, not manipulate
-How a wise person is made, not born
I was very much reminded of his talk while listening to your discussion today.
Also, to the point that much of right learning is experiential, it strikes me that many great thinkers, including St. Thomas Aquinas, have said that the cardinal virtues, including Prudence (much of which is reflected in the above choice-making) must be arrived at through the routine choosing of prudence, etc., in the course of regular life (i.e. from experience).
And, again, the map is not the territory - administrators necessarily summarize into a map, which is lower in granularity than what direct workers know.
Interesting stuff. Great discussion.
P.S. Metis is the ugliest word since phronesis.
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This is okay but I think outdated. My mom who works as a para at a tiny little school in a tiny little rural town was talking about the subject a bit to me the next day actually. The education is getting so bad. The kids are getting so bad. There's so much technology. The kids even in high school english class don't even read books and actually do their own writing anymore (at least, not with the current teacher, it could change again). Everything is online and technology based and with especially A.I. now and that kind of thing, kids can and do just look up the answers or can wait to go home and finish their homework by cheating. In math you don't actually learn how to think, about the logic involved, the "what, and why?" but you just learn how to solve the problem by rote repetition (my education wasn't the greatest but not the worst either. I understand it is necessary to do the work). The kids use calculators for everything, even for simple math I guess. The family "structure" or whatever you want to call it, "cohesiveness of the family" and it's importance in society is falling apart (here in the United States). Muslims who move here, from Palestine for example, some find the loneliness very hard to deal with. I heard even the traditional family ways in Palestine aren't really a reality there anymore as well because the cost of living is too high for only the husband to work and support a family; so the women have to work too and often want to and want to go to college and get degrees so they can become nurses, dentists, etc. but in Palestine they still have some family and community support in helping moms care for and raise infants and children.
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Guest: Susan Jacoby, author, “The Age of American Unreason” 72,777 views Aug 4, 2017
Taped: 05-08-2008.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1822711.The_Age_of_American_Unreason I do get and understant what the critical reviewers are saying in their critical reviews here. I think it's important to understand what Chomsky is saying about learning when for example, if and when you are mixing religion and religious understanding in with education and that possibly being a danger in producing individuals who are dismissive of all other's opinions, ideas, etc. I'm a Muslims and believe Islam is the way and is right and that that is important, but there is a balance, especially in educating and producing people who can filter or sift "the wheat from the chaff" (think for themselves and know what is valuable and what is right vs. what is unreasonable and/or what is dismissive or "elitist" (my way or the highway)). As one reviewer points out,
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4) Unlike Jacoby, I don’t think conservatives are wrong to point out that intellectualism is potentially problematic and that intellectuals (whether conservative or liberal) can, in fact, be dangerously divorced from reality. While I consider myself to have an intellectual bent, I am well aware of how easy it is for intellectually minded people to become so consumed by ideas that they fail to consider the actual, real-life consequences of those ideas. Supporting and pursuing the idea becomes, for many intellectuals, worth any price that must be paid. It was not the masses hungering for vengeance that led to a mismanaged war in Iraq, but the neo-conservative think tanks churning out ideas about American hegemony and theories of domino democratization. It was not the generals who did not foresee the complications, but the intellectuals. Nazism was bred in the universities and mounted up on the wings of intellectual philosophies such as Nietzscheism. Communism was a product of the intellectual class. The terrorists of violent jihadism largely hail from the educated classes in their countries. The “irrational masses” give birth to the occasional riot and bad reality television show, but it is largely the educated, intellectual classes who give birth to the ideologies whose real-life consequences are widespread, long-term, large-scale suffering, ideologies eventually filtered down to the masses through an academy that lacks intellectual diversity. Does all this mean I believe we shouldn’t think? That we shouldn’t create and defend ideas? No, but it means I believe it is not unwise to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism about intellectuals and that it is not necessarily a terrible thing that Americans, unlike the other more enlightened peoples of the globe, have a habit of not accepting everything the educated authorities tell them.
Jacoby speaks of how people are inclined only to read what reinforces their view. She’s right about this, and I certainly fall into that trap too often myself. So, if you want to take up Jacoby’s call not to be a part of the Age of American Unreason, and therefore not just read what reinforces her view, you’ll want a counterbalance to this book. I recommend that anyone who reads this also read Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals.
Intellectuals is a book that explores the lives of ten famous intellectuals. But it also talks about the way intellectuals divorce themselves from reality with their ideas, not really caring how those ideas might actually affect the average, real-life person. It is a portrait, ten portraits really, of the out-of-touch intellectual. Jacoby will tell you that Americans are a pack of ignoramuses for approaching intellectuals and intellectualism with such extreme wariness. Paul Johnson, reaching into history, will give you some idea of why that may not be such a bad idea after all.
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Luis
7 years ago
I liked your review but it is obviously tainted by some cognitive dissonance and and historical inaccuracies. Take for example the relationship of Nietzsche with Nazis. This had more to do with his his sister and anti-Semite husband who took control of his estate after he went mad. The fact is they hijacked his ideas which is totally different from espousing and propagating exactly what he said. It's true that intellectuals can live in their own bubbles but to assume all intellectuals are constitutionally comprised this way is just an over generalization not based on fact. Carl Sagan, and I say this as someone with Evangelical roots in my upbringing, stressed the need for intellectual humility, which from the likes of what is happening today in America many of us lack. Too bad you did not finish the book when it made you feel uncomfortable; it surprised me given how you write sort of alludes that you should have the capability to entertain ideas without having to necessarily accept them. Have you read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life? I personally feel Christianity has been a force for good in history. Sadly, we see it's negative and dark side when hijacked by the ignorant and power hungry. Take for example the Evangelical movement in the USA. They certainly don't represent the Jesus I see in the Bible and I feel I came to personally understand in my teens.
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"If you agree with everything Jacoby says, you're not paying enough attention. She's out to diagnose all the reasons why Americans are falling behind the rest of the world intellectually. I think she's right about a lot of what she says, but she blames quite a bit on conservatives and on religion that I don't agree can be laid on those particular doorsteps. At the same time, it's fascinating to read her take on the 60's--particularly given that my in-laws were definitely part of the counter-counterculture (i.e.--they're conservative boomers who worked hard to make a lot of money, and still see liberals and intellectuals basically lazy--thus, their constant teasing of my long-haired husband for his "early retirement" to academia).
The main weakness of this book for me is that it's a 350 page rant directed toward liberal intellectuals who already agree with Jacoby. I think what she's saying about our culture is important, especially when she talks about the influence of the media and of celebrity culture on our intellectual life. After reading this book I am more convinced than ever that we as a nation need to have a conversation about intellectualism and education, and how to encourage true learning and critical thought in our children, and I had high hopes this book would serve as a starting place for that conversation. Unfortunately, I don't think it will, precisely because Jacoby, like the conservatives she pillories, isn't talking to anyone who doesn't already agree with her.
I wish the book were written in a way that it were more accessible to those who disagree politically with Jacoby. Her underlying message is definitely one all Americans should hear, not just those who are democrats, and I think it highly unfortunate this is written in such a way anyone of a different political stripe will likely dismiss the good points of her argument because of her politics. I would suggest this to everyone to read, but I will warn those of you who are LDS that she sees the Mormon church as a fundamentalist cult, and says so repeatedly.
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" Ah, a left-wing version of Alan Bloom's 'Closing of the American Mind.' Just what we need.
There are good things about this book, specifically, the history of the early and mid-twentieth century. The opening chapters and the closing chapters, however, are mind-boggling. If one takes it upon oneself to defend 'reason', it is best to be rational in the task. Jacoby can't do it. I'm glad she pointed out that the worst instance of irrationality is our general inability to distinguish between causation and correlation. Just because x and y go together doesn't mean one caused the other, and it certainly doesn't mean you can decide which is the cause and which the effect. But instead of taking her own advice, Jacoby argues that stupidity is caused by 'screen media.'
Of course there can be no evidence for this causation, only a correlation. I'm not surprised that people who watch more television do worse on tests of intelligence. I am surprised that one would conclude from this that television causes low intelligence. Had Jacoby thought a little more before launching onto her Jeremiad, she might have considered the following:
* that the Emersonian individualism she preaches is itself a cause for irrationalism. It implies that each person should find their own way. The problem is that nobody can ever 'find their own way.' At best, they can get thrown onto a path, and much later learn to view it dispassionately. But if you assume that everyone can, by virtue of being a 'unit, one character,' a picker of peculiar fruit, you block off this possibility. And you assume that the path you're on was freely chosen, unlike 'the gross, the hundred or the thousand.' Unlike everyone else.
* that this individualism fits nicely with the doctrines of 'responsible journalism,' which mandate that both sides of a story be told even when there is only one side. 'Responsible journalism' has left American blissfully free of truth in reporting. Jacoby and her ilk believe that long form reporting is what we're missing. Not so. What's missing is a belief that journalism involves more than facts; it involves opinions.
* Jacoby argues against all social theory, most of the social sciences, philosophy, theology... in short, anything which isn't based on physical scientific facts. This fits in nicely with the about 'responsible journalism.' The question arises, then, what Jacoby's own work is? It's certainly social science in some guise or another, with a hefty dose of philosophy (Enlightenment humanism, more or less). So the book is self-refuting. More importantly, if all knowledge is scientific fact, then the 'rational' among us have nothing to say to those we think of as 'irrational'. Facts are neither reasonable nor unreasonable. Only their interpretations are reasonable or unreasonable. And unfortunately, Jacoby's interpretation is unreasonable: there is a correlation between screen media use and intellectual ability, not a direct causal relationship.
* Her belief that this is a causal relationship means Jacoby doesn't look a little deeper to find the reason so many people spend all their time watching TV, despite knowing that a game/a concert/a dinner with friends is more fulfilling: most of us are simply too frigging tired to make the effort. And we're too tired because our work-hours have increased, the intellectual requirements of our work have increased, and our holiday time has decreased. Had Jacoby done a bit more reading of the classics, and a bit less time reading I. F. Stone's idiotic conversations about those classics, she would know that 'negotiation' means, more or less, 'not leisure.' And that it was precisely leisure that made all the deep thinking of the classic authors possible - the free time that was more available in the 'fifties and 'sixties, and which has now disappeared.
You can't just tell people to read more if they're too tired to read. Better to spend your time fighting for reasonable labor laws. But I think we know how unlikely that is. It wouldn't sell at all.
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I don't know, just looking for more reference material as I write this:
Leeja Miller
290,787 views Nov 25, 2024 Why, America? with Leeja Miller
🗞️ Go to https://ground.news/leeja to stay fully informed and see all sides of every story. Subscribe through my link for 50% off the Vantage plan for a limited time during their biggest sale of the year. | Teachers were already burning out before COVID. Add onto that parents who are trying to police what's being taught in schools or are completely checked out, and students who are misbehaved or have quit showing up, and you have yourself a true disaster. Now with Linda McMahon as education secretary, a woman who has more experience in the WWE ring than in a classroom, it seems all but assured that our education system is going down the toilet.
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Every single day, America is looking more and more like a Reality TV Show, and everyone else is just watching in horror rather than laughing at it. This is yet another example of that.
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A few years ago, my wife was selected as "Teacher of the Year" for her grade (8th) at one of the middle schools here in South Bend, IN. As a teacher in rural Knox, IN, she got her advanced classes to perform TWO Shakespeare plays on a beautiful stage that had never been used for a play in 60 years! Half the town showed up to watch. She also got students at an "inner city" school to do a play. My point?... She's a great teacher! Last year, she had been pushed to her limit... by students, parents, and administrators... and she walked out of the classroom. Whatever you hear about how bad teaching is... It's worse.
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As a current senior in high school, there is a weird culture where there are two nearly completely separate types of students I see: the Advanced Placement/honors super smart, highly driven kids, who have usually overreaching parents and are under constant, crippling stress about every test. Then there's the "regular" class-taking students, who simply do not care, don't listen or participate in class (even "fun" activities), and are chronically addicted to their phones. I'd estimate about 80% of all students fall into one of these two categories. I'm not looking forward to what happens next term after Trump takes power, even here in California.
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my conservative mother and i had a conversation last year where i tried (in vain) to explain that if you treat public education as a pure value proposition--put x dollars in, get y workers out--you will get none of the people who move society forward because theres no benefit to encouraging critical thinking, ingenuity, and creativity in people you plan to staff low corporate hierarchy jobs with. its devastating to me that we don't think of education as a critical public good regardless of who benefits, and this context absolutely makes me feel worse
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My three years working in the education system were the most miserable, soul-crushing years of my life. I was disrespected and abused by children and adults alike. Students mocked and harassed me for my weight and received no punishment for it. The principal of the last school I worked for said in a meeting that I, a college-educated adult would be better off working at Burger King. I only worked in the schools for three years but by the end, I was broke, burnt-out, and suicidally depressed. I’m only now starting to put myself back together. I just feel resentful that I spent so much time and money on a career path that led me nowhere. There isn’t enough money in the world for me to go back.
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As a teacher who quit because of burnout and mistreatment from staff and parents. It's a hard job, and no one cares or appreciates you. You do it because you find fulfillment in helping and guiding the youth and helping them explore the world and their own minds. Idk if I'll ever be returning to the teaching field.
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I was a product of No Child Left Behind. It's been very difficult for me to take education back into my own hands and learn things I should've learned in school
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Here's a fun fact: I taught Art and Music in a Catholic Jr/Sr high school for 7 years, until the school closed down in 1992. My salary had topped off at 11,000 dollars /year. The total budget for art supplies for the the entire year for 100 students was 500 dollars, yes, $5 / child. And of course, that wasn't enough, so guess who took up the financial slack with his meager earnings, whenever the need arose... When the school closed, no retirement benefits. But to this day, my former students still remember the lessons they learned and have continued to appreciate and participate in the arts.
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Levar Burton blames No Child Left Behind for canceling Reading Rainbow, which inspired an entire generation of kids to read. For free! Passed in 2002, it is no coincidence that we see the repercussions finally manifesting in academia. Judging teachers by their student's test scores is a recipe that leads to memorization, not comprehension! No understanding = No reciprocation.
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It's like... treating schooling as a privilege and not a right and commodifying it is... bad actually. Wooooow
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My mother, a lifelong conservative and teacher, says that when people ask her why neither of her children are teachers, she says “because I love them too much to encourage that.” And that’s all you need to know.
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Does this mean i can make an onlyfans dedicated to teaching people how to read, understand basic maths, and other general subjects?
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Hi, so I am a 23 year old from Arizona, I was one of the first-time unlicensed teachers you are referring to at the 10-minute mark. So I studied chemistry and earth science in university. Got a BS degree and after graduating I struggled to find a laboratory position in my rural town. I ended up getting hired as a science 8th-grade middle school teacher under an emergency teaching credential good for 1 year. Mind you, I applied, interviewed, and was hired literally all in the same day. Also I had never wanted to be a teacher. I had a huge problem as a teacher, and it played a role in my mental health deteriorating. While I am knowledgeable about my 2 science subjects (enough to cover the science standards for my state), I had a huge problem in getting my students to think critically and to make the heavy topics manageable. In other words, I did not know how to teach. To make matters worse, I was reaching obstacles I did not even think would occur. For example, when working with the density formula, my students didn't understand how to re-arrange the equation to solve for different variables. When working with balancing equations, my students got stuck on simple addition & multiplication. During a meiosis lesson, we added a whole number and a fraction, and that stumped them. When reading articles, finding the main idea was incredibly hard for them. These are things I did not realize I would have to cover and it threw me for a loop. Anyway long story short, my anxiety was getting so bad that I decided to cut my contract short 3 months before the end of the year. While I felt bad for disrupting my student's routine, I just could not handle it anymore. What you are saying Leeja is so true and just sad to see how everything is occurring.
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There's a subreddit r/TeachersInTransition where every post is a teacher who wants out or got out. They rant about misbehaving kids, helicopter parents, uncaring school administrators, lack of compensation, and lack of ability to get a new job. The mental stress is terrifying to read about. One of today's post says, "I’ve applied to so many positions. Spent hours a day looking, re-writing cover letters and my resume, and found nothing. I am sure there are some low paying jobs I could get, but I am the primary income for my family, and we need all of my check... I will leave immediately if one is found. But for now, I’ll be in my classroom, probably crying at my desk." There are new posts every single day.
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I’m an Oklahoma teacher working in one of the many districts who is fighting unconstitutional interference of the state department of education into our classrooms. Not only that, but trauma neuro science is helping us to understand how children’s brains are changing in response to being raised by screens. What a time to be a teacher! Thank you for bringing more awareness to These problems!
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Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment and the value of standardised assessment. Presented at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference - Jan 25th 2012- London (LWF 12)
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I agree with his every word. Always teach my students to think on their own, question me, as their instructor, question the teaching materials, the curriculum, and the "public opinion." Educating independent thinkers is priceless. "Education is what remains after you've forgotten everything you've been taught." Don't know who said it, but bloody well said!
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" Teaching ought to be inspiring students to discover on their own, to challenge if they don't agree, to look for alternatives if they think they are better ones..." -Noam Chomsky
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Exactly.
It's so sad to see what is happening to the world.
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As a former educator at both the secondary and community college levels, I agree. In my beginning yrs as a teacher, I bought into the "indoctrination" approach to education. It's a disaster for both students & ed in general. It was only in later yrs that I learned the value of teaching students to think & develop creativity rather than to recite. Some recitation is of use, but it shouldn't be the primary focus of education.
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"it doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover." i love this video! and noam chomsky.
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-This seems good but it is also very dangerous and prone to arrogance I would say as well as in thinking we know more than (possibly) the four great Imams of Islam. "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater". The Quran is indeed glorious and very clear. Is not hard to understand. I am still learning and forgot or err regarding some things. It's important to stay engaged with the Qur'an and to build a solid foundation/base. I think it is true that we should not take our scholars and preists and put them on pedestals as well though like as has happened in Christianity and other religions. We have the Holy Qur'an which is the word of Allah and is ever-becoming (true). - Learn and "think for yourself". But/And, there is nothing wrong with accepting and putting into practice that which other more knowledgeable scholars etc. say to do so and is what is right in the deen/religion. That doesn't mean that you have to accept all of their fiqh either though, but I think most of the traditional fiqh is right...or probably right, but Fear Allah regarding that which may be unjust or even "evil" and "shaytonic". It is just a matter of learning the full application and context and ways and means. "Don't transgress the limits" and struggle and exert thyself as well, practice "Ihsan" and devote your life for and to Allah and trust in him. That is the straight path. That, that path, is liberatory. It's not negatively self-righteous. It's not hard-heartedness. Allah is Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem and free of need of the worlds.
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"All wars are banker's wars."
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Subhannah Allah. I agree, especially with the last part. That was my idea and conclusion as well (I'm reminded of something I heard somewhere of "go back to the source, of when one first becomes a Muslim and reads the Qur'an (for themselves, and thinking for oneself). Not to dismiss everythign that your taught and have learned in the religion but going into your "soul of your soul" or "heart of the matter". - We've become and can become very left brained (Ian McGilchrist book: "The Matter with Things"). All humans are born with an uncorrupted fitrah. "The human spirit (the energy of the spirit or soul) is eternal. Is endless" "we are one humanity, we will all be raised up as one humanity, we all come from a single soul, the soul of Adam" - this was from Abdul Rahman's talk I listened to earlier):
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This and some of the comments are really interesting and introspective:
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This is a very short summary of the book:
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Hope (pray for your enemies? - at the least, one can forgive even your staunchest enemies like following the example of the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. and following the Injeel (the ways of Jesus peace be upon him (and even the very worst criminals (such as a Netanyahu, if you/we have actually apprehended such him or such a person) sentenced to death, you can at least give them time to possibly pray and repent. It's up to Allah to forgive or to unseal a heart. I believe that was the ways of our Prophet Muhammad S.A.W.( - He S.A.W. didn't torture people etc. Death is not worse than long-suffering such as some of the atrocities committed to people during WWII: in prison camps starving and freezing to death, in the elements, bare, and in increasingly worse conditions of their own feces etc. Is not worse than experiencing a genocide such as what the people in Gaza have been going through(what kind of ethics and morals are those, my mind doesn't like to go there, into those depths (waves and waves) of darkness; but the people committing or aiding such atrocities probably don't go there either and are the evil ones perpetuating such onto other human beings (so the conundrum of, and that which like Carl Jung sometimes talked about, which is like "illuminating the darkness (is kind of like an act of heroism) - "will fear keep us safe?" - Fear and ignorance does not and will not keep anyone safe or from learning from history so we can build a better planet by not repeating mistakes of the past. And may Allah forgive us if we can't feel deeply enough and can't go into such darkness, I do think that that is dangerous and can make people depressed. So just learn and view things without dwelling or thinking too much about it is probably best and not letting the heart become too hard or desensitized. (-The character, the strength, the mercy, the humanity of the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. and of Allah S.W.T. is really something else. To be able and strong enough to look and face reality and oneself in all matters...and wrestle with yourself. As Allah says in the Qur'an he knows the unseen and all things, all matters will be brought to bear. It can be very difficult at times))): Trump TURNS On Netanyahu! Forces Israel To END THE WAR And Stop The Bloodshed
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Extremism is dangerous. Whether its religious, environmental or whatever the case may be. May Allah protect us from hypocrisy. I'm a human, I use a good amount of energy, I am too addicted and/or reliant on technology. I have my weaknesses and deficiencies in my being or actions etc. Character and morality, what is inside your heart of goodness and noor is what matters much to Allah S.W.T.but it is also about one's actions as well.
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Jan 15, 2025 The Great Simplification - with Nate Hagens
(Conversation recorded on December 4th, 2024) It is an unfortunate reality that the countries least responsible for the climate and ecological crises we face are often the ones most vulnerable to their effects today and in the future. India – with its population of 1.4 billion, rapidly rising temperatures, and limited resources compared to many developed nations – finds itself at the crossroads of these challenges. What do India’s leading scientists and advocates have to say about coping with these extreme pressures?
In this episode, Nate is joined by environmentalist and policy advocate Sunita Narain to discuss the intricate relationship between environmental issues and development, emphasizing the need for economically inclusive solutions.
She highlights India’s challenges with sanitation, urban mobility, and climate change, while pushing for wiser approaches to governance and community planning. How can the moral and cultural history of India combine with science and innovation to guide policy making decisions? Why does ‘sustainable development’ need to go beyond environmental considerations to include the economic availability for each nation’s poorest citizens? And perhaps most importantly, how could today’s challenges position India as a global leader in creating an economic system that prioritizes the health and well-being of all life on Earth?
What can India and the people of India contribute to this global conversation?
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So I think we definitely can, Nate. I think India has intrinsic wisdom,
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and it has this enormous, wealth of practice. You know, at the end of the day,
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there's a lot of There's a cacophony of noise out there. What you and I are looking for is
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practice. We're looking for real stuff. I mean, that's very clearly what I can
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see from you that you, want something real and that's what you and I want.
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India has that. I mean, if I look at the water harvesting traditions of India,
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they were built out of. The concept that I just talked about, catch water where it falls. Every city, every region of India had this amazing tradition of lakes,
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of ponds, of harvesting water from its roots. It came out of the wisdom that
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You need to make sure that every bit of resource is used carefully.
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I mean, today, in today's world, we talk about circularity. We talk about resource
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efficiency. That was part of the way we live. We talk about frugality. And that not being poverty,
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that frugality does not mean that you're poor. It just means that
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you have learned to live with making sure that you are happy with little.
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Now, the trouble, Nate, is, and I'll be very frank with you, the trouble is the headwinds are against this. And the headwinds are against this
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because What we see as the icons of, tomorrow or today are people who are no longer living
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the kind of life that I believe, would be something that everybody must emulate.
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So we had this amazing industrialist, Ratan Tata, the man who built the Tata empire. He
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just passed away, a few, months ago. And when I was reminiscing about him and writing about him,
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I realized that the biggest reason why we hold him with such high regard was that
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a man who both understood that there was a need to hear different voices,
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but he also lived his life with enormous dignity and simplicity.
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And that this meant something to him, that wealth wasn't about flaunting. it, but wealth was about
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living it so that you lived for others. And on the other hand, we've had this wedding, which
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I'm sure has captured your, I mean, it seems to have been the wedding of the century, by another
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Indian industrialist for his son, Mukesh Ambani, which has been this torrid, gross spectacle.
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of wealth. Okay? Now, the problem is, Nate, that most of India looks at the wedding and says,
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that's where I want to be. And that's what you and I are faced with today,
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Nate. That's what is the global dilemma because simplification means having,
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people who you would look up to, values that you would cherish and say, this is how I want to be.
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We had that. We had Gandhi. We grew up in an age of Gandhi. I grew up in
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an age of Gandhi. When so much of my life was about my mother telling me,
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Don't waste food because somebody else does not even have what you have. Okay? We grew up being
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told not to be poor, but to be kind. To be, sure that the values that you had were very important.
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Do we, to me, Nate, what we are losing today is humanity. What we are losing today is the
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word morality.
So, expanding on that, I'm going to assume around 40 percent of our, of viewers of this
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channel are in the United States and probably two thirds in the, global north at, least. So, from, for the countries who are burning,
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E. O. Wilson, Nate Hagens, Superorganism, The Great Simplification, ecological economics,
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You know, Nate, climate change is an issue which will force us to work together. I have no doubt about that. It is nature's way of telling us we
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live in one planet. We are one people. We cannot afford not to listen to each other.
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And I'll give you the facts on this. I mean, this sounds very sort of moralistic. Let me,
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break it down into some, just some basic facts. The fact is we have a
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carbon budget. It's a limited carbon budget. It's the amount of carbon dioxide we can emit into the atmosphere, which is a common atmosphere.
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So it doesn't matter if you burn it where you're sitting, or I burn it in Delhi, it's all going to go into this common soup, one atmosphere that
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surrounds us. And there is a carbon budget for it. A finite amount of carbon dioxide that
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we can emit to keep the world below a certain temperature rise. We know what it's like for 1.
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5 degrees. We know how much it's It can, it will be for two degrees, at least that's what we know today when it comes to science. Science may change a little bit,
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but the numbers are not changing a lot. Now the inconvenient truth of that is
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as follows. Number one, the world is going to exhaust the carbon budget to keep it below 1.
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5 degrees by the end of this decade at the rate we are burning today. That's
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the one truth. But the other part of the inconvenient truth is that by 2030,
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when we've exhausted the budget for 1. 5 degrees, 70 percent of the world's population,
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70 percent of the world's population will have access to only 30 percent of the carbon budget.
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30 percent of the world's population, which includes countries like the U. S. and China,
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would have appropriated 70 percent of the carbon budget. Now you can argue saying,
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oh, that's what it is. We were rich. We were wise. We were clever. We took
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it. You have nothing left. The fact is, Nate, we exist. You can't wish us away.
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We continue to live, breathe, develop, and emit. This is why we have to understand that we live
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in this one world together. That is why the latest COP in Baku was so important, because it was about
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UN language called means of implementation, which simply means the financial resources it'll take.
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So that a country like India, the continent of Africa, will develop, but develop differently.
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So, let's be very clear about this, Nate. I don't know if you'll change now, I don't know if you'll change in the next decade or so,
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but climate change is nature's way of telling us, we are together. We live on one planet.
So I want to be respectful of your time, which means I have to, not ask you 20 questions that I
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had planned to ask you. but instead, ask you some closing questions that I ask all of my guests.
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But from your perspective, for the people watching this, what can someone do today? Now,
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this month to help address some of the broader issues, that you raised in, this conversation.
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I don't know, Nate. I don't have simple answers. I really don't know. There are
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no 10 ways to save the planet. I think all I can ask everyone who's watching this show
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is Let's respect each other's point of view, our opinions, the differences that we have.
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Let's keep the hope alive and let's keep humanity alive. That's all I can hope for as we move ahead.
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Relatedly, what is one thing or several things you think all young people,
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young humans in India and the world should understand? I think they should understand the despair of the poor.
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It worries me, Nate, I see young Indians. Most people who would work,
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come and work with me in the past always came from some part of village India. came
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from households which had understood, what it meant to succeed. There's still
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a lot of that in India and I think that's what keeps us real. But we need a lot more
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of that because I find today, in today's world, we are all in little bubbles.
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so the young of the world are in a bubble of the people that they like, they read, They're here
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because they're in that bubble. And I think more and more, I believe we need to bust the bubbles.
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And the most important thing is for them to understand, put a human face on the tragedy of climate change that is in front of us.
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It's not climate change. It's about the impact on the poor woman. Who doesn't even have the money
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to buy the fuel wood? to cook her food. And she today is caught at a time when not only is she
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already poor, but she's getting poorer with every time there is an extreme weather event.
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But she's coping, she's surviving, she's working at it, and she's still smiling.
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That's the human tenacity that we forget in our world. So I just want the young of
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the world not to be denied the opportunity to understand human endeavor as it really exists
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in the majority of the world that is. That's what gives me hope. Every time I've traveled,
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you have traveled as well. That's the human face that you and I.
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take back to give us the hope. That's, I think, what the young people of the world need as well.
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You, can't unsee that, both the, tragedy and the beauty of humanity around the world. there
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are borders, there are nations, there are individual governments, but we are All one species, figuring it out in the early 21st century.
A magic wand. I don't know, Nate. I really don't know. I mean, you know,
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I think as you get older at this, you realize that the solutions will not come out of that
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magic wand. They will come out of persistence, perseverance, and tenacity. And that is the
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magic wand that I really believe will give us that different tomorrow and, the duty to hope.
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I keep repeating it, but I really believe in it, that in today's very dark times,
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when we have wars around us, which are, Crippling. I mean, mind numbing when you
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look at those wars. I cannot even see them. the, you look at the war we're losing with
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nature. You see what we are doing to our democracies, changing our democracies.
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You would want to give up, but you can't. And I think that's the magic
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wand that I want is the ability for all of us to learn from the
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very poor of the world the tenacity it takes to make tomorrow better.
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Isra and Miraj: The Greatest Journey Through the Heavens | Ep 6 | Al-Aqsa Series | Dr. Omar Suleiman
Yaqeen Institute
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Amidst his deepest hardships, Allah took the Prophet ﷺ close to Himself in the Mi’raj, and gave him and his ummah a special gift. Learn the full story of Isra and Mi’raj (Night Journey...
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