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Education, the key to individual life chances and means 'to draw out', facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgement and well-developed wisdom. |
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ARTICIFIAL INTELLIGENCE CHATBOX |
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Columbia Global Centers |
Columbia Global Centers: Columbia University and the Columbia Global Centers have launched a distinctive initiative to provide thousands of Columbia students with access to global study and community spaces. This fall term, University students in 65 cities around the world can convene, study, collaborate, and experience new programming opportunities created just for them, in safe, comfortable, and enriching environments.
Columbia-designated spaces at existing sites and pop-up locations include our Global Centers in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Nairobi, Paris, Santiago, and Tunis, which have expanded their capacities to become study centers for students in their regions,as well as dedicated spaces at WeWork facilities inBeijing, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, and Seoul. In addition, students can now access non-Columbia-designated spaces at WeWork facilities in another 50 cities around the world. The University has also arranged for designated space for its students in Tel Aviv, at Tel Aviv University, and in Athens, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. |
a growing library of free multimedia resources | GLOBAL JUSTICE THROUGH EDUCATION |
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The Magic Mountain Revisited, Cultivating the Human Spirit in Dispirited Times
‘A man changes a lot of his ideas here.’ This is how Hans Castorp is greeted upon arrival at the sanatorium high in the Swiss mountains at Davos; but the greeting is also addressed to the reader of his story in The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann’s masterpiece. The novel ends in 1914, when the great war has erupted. We meet Hans Castorp one last time, no longer far from day-to-day reality high in the 4 mountains, but as a soldier on the battlefield. We do not know if he will survive this war. But we know that in these seven years he has received a spiritual education, a Bildung, that made him a different person, an adult — with very different ideas from when his story began. |
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mobility between lower and higher education levels |
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In order to improve understanding and quality of global justice through education and to promote mobility between lower and higher education levels, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science undertook initiatives:
Students themselves started to improve mobility from lower to higher education during the Dutch ECS StudentLab there was cooperation for four months with other lower and higher students. They looked into the mind of the minister or school director. Together they worked on concrete plans for better information, preparation, guidance and more study successes of lower graduates who pass on to the higher education. Early this year, student labs were organized throughout the Netherlands. Groups of advanced lower and higher graduates with a lower education backround worked together under professional guidance. The target? To reduce the loss of secondary school students in higher education! |
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What a proud word universitas is, the whole, total, what program was already with Plato |
‘Universitas?’ Part I. Read Steiner’s full lecture in Becoming Human Is an Art. In our times, there are still educational institutions which call themselves universities. But do they still have a claim to universitas, the all-encompassing ideal of knowledge which the West inherited from Athens and Rome? In an unequalled indictment of the spirit of our times, George Steiner, world-renowned literary scholar and cultural critic, lectures modern universities. His criticism contains an exhortation to us all. |
educational benefits for European society |
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European-wide cooperation among civil society organisations is also promoted by the European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning (EUCIS-LLL). It is made up of 24 European networks active in education and training in order to build a citizen's voice on lifelong learning issues and to propose concrete solutions based on the expertise, the competencies and the experience of its networks' experts and practitioners.
The platform fosters a vision of lifelong learning that promotes equity, social cohesion (for which the project BeLL is looking for benefits) and active citizenship. It believes that the objectives of education and training should not only be described in terms of employability or economic growth but also as a framework for personal development. It is essential to raise awareness on the fact that lifelong learning should include a large range of learning settings and create more complementarity and continuity between formal, non-formal and informal learning. |
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FINANCIAL LITERACY |
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What is an Educated Man? |
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JOHN ADAMS WRITES TO ABIGAIL: ‘I MUST STUDY POLITICKS AND WAR’ |
"I could fill Volumes with Descriptions of Temples and Palaces, Paintings, Sculptures, Tapestry, Porcelaine, &c. &c. &c. — if I could have time. But I could not do this without neglecting my duty. The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts. I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine." (John Adams in a letter May 12, 1780 posted from Paris to his wife Abigail).
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