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09 June, 2006

Education revolution

Hooray for Sheikh Mo, who is determined to modernise education:

"The days of dictating, memorising, reprimanding, and saying are long gone. A school's primary objective is to teach students how to learn, acquire knowledge, think, search, and have the ability to choose between the available and possible alternatives."

Wise and courageous words. Because what impact is a highly educated, independent-minded and critically-thinking new generation going to have here? Farewell autocracy, hello democracy. Uneducated aristocratic sons can forget about plum government jobs when lowly bedouins start postgraduating in droves.

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12 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm looking forward to that day when lowly bedouins start postgraduating in droves and drive the shit out of uneducated aristocratic sons. Think it'll happen in Dubai soon? Wait and see is the name of the game :-)

09 June, 2006 10:08  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

louis that was a stupid comment.

09 June, 2006 11:05  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous, why do you think so?

09 June, 2006 11:29  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wish that Sheikh Mohammed bin rashad al-maktoum was my country's leader...He reminds me a lot about sheikh zayed (rahimhu Allah).
Indeed Good men.

10 June, 2006 04:58  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would consider Sheikh Mohammed an even bigger (than he is now already) Hero the day he tones down the capitalistic upswing in swing for the past few months. Survival of the fittest may be the name of the game in Dubai but fittest are those that are humane and prevent others from being inhuman. Take a look around you and you'll see what I mean.

10 June, 2006 08:31  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

'I've already decided i'm buying cheap knock-off sunglasses from here on...'

Count me in for these sunglasses and anything else that counts as an individual contribution to tone down the Dirham rhetoric.

10 June, 2006 10:16  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sheikh Mo is a dynamic leader and he makes some idealistic statements, but that may not be reality. The costs in Dubai have gone so high that servicing other markets from Dubai are not profitable anymore. I guess it is after all a desert envirnoment and cost of upkeep are astronomical. So long as Oil prices keep going up, the AGCC govts will do fine by keeping the locals monetarily happy. The strict religious codes also are a way to control any free local thinkers. As for expats expecting to earn some tax free money, think again. The increasing costs, charges etc. will make sure you spend most of your money in Dubai. Beware the bankruptcy laws are non exsitent for expats. That's what Sheikh Mo wants anyway.

10 June, 2006 18:07  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

At the rate at which things are moving, I hope Dubai is not an ever expanding bubble waiting to burst? I hope I’m not around to see this happen for that would truly hurt the founding fathers who had a vision for growth without malice and prejudice that is contrary to the vision of today for the many tomorrows.

10 June, 2006 19:14  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SD uve become very kiss assy these days

10 June, 2006 23:10  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Whats teh point of educating the citizens when stuff like this happens -> Fujairah Shariah court orders man to be stoned to death for adultery

11 June, 2006 08:52  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Swizel - I have met plenty of Arabs with degrees in History, Anthropology, Archaelogy, Comparative Literature, etc (I myself have a post-graduate degree in the former). Now, if you meant Arabs as only UAE citizens, I'll grant you that there is a strong drive to study technology and business at the moment, but you would be surprised how many study political science, media and sociology, among others. They're not making it into the media, but it doesnt mean they dont exist. I get irked when people make blanket statements, thats all.

11 June, 2006 08:54  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Education Revolution needed ASAP at Dubai Police HQ

11 June, 2006 10:06  

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