by RAHIM KANANI
“What is the definition of an educated person today? Does that definition include some basic knowledge about the Islamic world or not? If it doesn’t, perhaps that needs to be corrected,” stated His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s Shia Ismaili Muslims, to National Public Radio. In our forever-globalizing world, the content of our education system must reflect the local, regional, national and international societies in which we will ultimately find ourselves. The system must also prepare us with the knowledge and background to avert crises of understanding each other’s history, culture, and religion, cementing our social structures as one grounded in intelligent discourse and voluntary engagement, rather than superficial knowledge and willful ignorance. The latter, we cannot deny, has proven disastrous.
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