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Education has been a significant cornerstone of Mawlana Hazar Imam’s initiatives throughout his Imamat, and even more so, during the Golden Jubilee year. Founded on the underlying premise that what students know is no longer the most important measure of an education, and that the true test is the ability of students and graduates to engage with what they do not know and to find solutions, the Academies seek to prepare a graduate not only for his or her first job, but also for a life of inquiry and learning in a world that will change rapidly and continuously.
Over the Golden Jubilee year thus far, Mawlana Hazar Imam laid the foundation stone for the residential campus at the first Academy in Mombasa, and new Academies in Kampala and Dhaka. He also reviewed progress of the Academy in Hyderabad. Foundation stones have previously been laid for Academies in Dar es Salaam, Maputo and Kabul.
Mawlana Hazar Imam delivered the Peterson Lecture at the 40th anniversary of the International Baccalaureate Organization in Atlanta, Georgia, during his Golden Jubilee visit to the USA in April 2008, in which he outlined his vision for the Academies. He commented that the “Academies have a dual mission: to provide an outstanding education to exceptional students from diverse backgrounds, and to provide world-class training for a growing corps of inspiring teachers.” More critically, “we can help reshape the very definition of a well educated global citizen. And we can begin that process by bridging the learning gap which lies at the heart of what some have called a clash of civilizations, but which I have always felt was rather a clash of ignorances,” he said.
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