Re-thinking Life !

In the last 15 years, the education sector has shown a full blown exponential growth in terms of enrollment rates , governmental expenditures, investments, (and of course tuition fees, notably in the private education). This gaining of exponential momentum is remarkably evident in the  MENA education sector more than anywhere in the world. Perhaps this is Partly due to the Arab Spring, most governments in the region have taken serious steps and announced large spends toward improving social infrastructure (education and healthcare). However, Despite high spending on education by respective MENA governments, the quality of education in the region has remained below global standards , an issue that parents and the job market have been pointing towards. Employers in the region always preferred foreigners rather than nationals to fill vacant/new positions as the locals were always perceived as not having the requisite skills required for some jobs. Public resentment always existed; howev

  Every last 10 days of Ramadan of every year, most Muslims around the world pray and supplicate at night hoping that one of these nights, especially Odd nights (21, 23, 25, 27,and 29th of Ramadan) might be the NIght of the Ordainment (Laylat Al-Qadr القدر ليلة ). In the Middle East, many countries, especially my country, the Lebanon believe it is the 27th of Ramadan every year, which is not true. Laylat Al-Qadr القدر ليلة  was not revealed to us by Allah (swt) though our beloved Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) so that we strive during the last 10 days every night to pray and supplicate for if we knew when the ليلة القدر is exactly then people might indulge in sins and on Laylat Al-Qadr ليلة القدر they would ask Allay (swt) for forgiveness. Or is true that Laylat Al-Qadr ليلة القدر cannot be known for sure? Let’s what a new numerical analysis of the Quran has to say about it. Primalogy and The Holy Quran All the information below is taken from Ali Adam’s website, a place where he uses his

  Misty Adoniou , University of Canberra A couple of years ago, early one morning, I received an SMS advising “resadents to stay indoors because of a nearby insadent”. I was shocked by the spelling, as much as the message. Surely, I thought, if it was a real message then the spelling would be correct. Spelling matters. In a text message from a friend teeing up a night out “c u at 8” is fine - but in an emergency warning text from a government agency, I expect the spelling to be standard. But why is it that some people struggle with standard spelling? Spelling remains the most relentlessly tested of all the literacy skills, but it is the least taught. Sending a list of words home on Monday to be tested on Friday is not teaching. Nor is getting children to write their spelling words out 10 times, even if they have to do it in rainbow colours. Looking, covering, writing and checking does not teach spelling. Looking for little words inside other words, and doing word searches are ju

  Chad Hanna , Pennsylvania State University The best thing about a day in my life on the lookout for gravitational waves is that I never know when it will begin. Like many of my colleagues working for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ( LIGO ), the morning of Monday, September 14, 2015 caught me completely off-guard. For years, we’ve been joking that Advanced LIGO would be so sensitive we might just detect one the very first day it turns on. In retrospect, it’s remarkable how close to reality that joke turned out to be. LIGO is listening for gravitational waves – one of the last unproven predictions of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. In his view of the universe, space and time are fluid things that depend on an observer’s frame of reference. For example, time passes just a (very) little bit more slowly for those who work on the ground floor of an office building as compared to their peers on the 101st floor. Why? They’re deeper in Earth’s gravitation

  If you are a responsible subversive teacher like me, you know well how hard it is to swim against the torrential current of institutional school systems backed up by business models, oblivious educators, and short-gain parents. Yet, you are not alone, many other educators have had the same ordeals, and they still do because it is a never ending battle of the enlightened minds. Below are 9 books written by, more of less, such responsible subversive educators for educators and parents. The books are not in order or preference, for they are all significant to any educator or parent who would like  a better way to raise their children. 1- Dumbing Us Down (by John Taylor Gatto) This radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers' bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders a