Education for a Better World – Eboo Patel talks about International Baccalaureate

From Newsweek’s On Faith blog:

The IB combines high academic standards with a powerful humanist purpose. Its mission statement speaks of developing “inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.”

As the Aga Khan noted in his Peterson Lecture to the IB this past April, “Pluralism is a value that must be taught.”

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