5 Minute Introduction • What is Buddhism? Buddhism is a religion to about 300 million people around the world. The word comes from 'budhi', 'to awaken'. It has its origins about 2,500 years ago when Siddhartha Gotama, known as the Buddha, was himself awakened (enlightened) at the age of 35. • Is Buddhism a Religion? To many, Buddhism goes beyond religion and is more of a philosophy or 'way of life'. (1) to lead a moral life, (2) to be mindful and aware of thoughts and actions, and (3) to develop wisdom and understanding. • How Can Buddhism Help Me? Buddhism explains a purpose to life, it explains apparent injustice and inequality around the world, and it provides a code of practice or way of life that leads to true happiness. • Why is Buddhism Becoming Popular? Buddhism is becoming popular in western countries for a number of reasons, The first good reason is Buddhism has answers to many of the problems in modern materialistic societies. • Who Was the Buddha? • Was the Buddha a God? • Do Buddhists Worship Idols?
Mission & History | About Asia Society Mission Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Across the fields of arts, business, culture, education, and policy, the Society provides insight, generates ideas, and promotes collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared future. History Asia Society was founded in 1956 by John D. In 2011, Asia Society appointed its first-ever Co-Chairs on both sides of the Pacific Ocean to reflect the rise of global interdependence and growing regional partnerships. The global center of gravity is shifting toward the fast-growing economies and countries of Asia," Ms. Mr. "The institution's focus covers more than 50 countries and territories. Here's what some leading figures have said about Asia Society: "At a time when the eyes of the world are on Asia, this institution is indispensable." — The New York Times
The 30 Most Innovative People in Education Alive Today – Top Education Degrees With Common Core on its way to implementation in all 50 states, the number of charter and classical schools increasing by unprecedented numbers, and home school participation at an all-time high, exciting things are happening on all fronts of education in America. From public and private classrooms, to the Department of Education, innovative people are seeking to better the country one student at a time. Though there are certainly more than thirty deserving people in the world of modern education, the men and women on this list were chosen and ranked based upon the following guidelines: 1. 2. 3. 4. 30. Though Sir Kenneth Robinson is an English citizen, the former professor has made quite the impact on American education. 29. When Clara Hemphill, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, began looking for a New York City public school for her son, she became frustrated by the lack of available information. 28. 27. 26. 25. 24. 23. 22. 21. 20. 19. 18. 17. 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7.
Lecture Notes: Early Indian and Chinese Civilizations The Rise and Spread of Civilization in India and China, c. 2500 BC-AD 535 Introduction and Overview: Early Indian Civilization 1) The third of the great river valley civilizations developed along the Indus River in present-day Pakistan. It flourished from about 2400 BC to about 1500 BC. 2) Shortly before its collapse, Indo-European or Aryan invaders entered the Indian sub-continent. 3) Over the course of the following centuries, these two civilizations blended and evolved, forming Indian civilization. 4) During this period, two great religious traditions — Hinduism and Buddhism — had their origins and then spread outwards. 5) Rise of Maurya and Gupta Empires. 6) Establishment of fundamental patterns of Indian civilization. Indus Valley Civilization View of Mohenjo-Daro towards the Great Bath. Street in Mohenjo-Daro with Covered Drain. Little is known about Harappan political life. Scholars can only speculate on the causes of the decline of Harappan civilization. Nature of the caste system
The Zhou Enlai Internet Archive Documents Biography On Taking Prompt Punitive Action Against Chiang Kai-Shek (April 1927) Communist Co-Operation by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (July 15, 1937) Guidelines for Myself (March 18, 1943) How to be a Good Leader (April 22, 1943) Actively Propogate Opposition to Civil War and Dictatorship and Expose Chiang Kai-Shek's Deceitful Plot (August 16, 1945) Frustrate the Enemy's Scheme for a Sham Peace Campaign (July 27, 1948) Chinese People Will Not Tolerate Aggresstion (October 1950) Letter to Prime Minister Nehru (November 7, 1959) Letter to All Government Heads (August 2, 1963) Message from Chairman Liu Shaoqi and Premier Zhou Enlai to Roberto Chiari, President of the Republic of Panama (January 12, 1964) Premier Zhou Enlai's Speech at the National Day Reception (September 30, 1966) Speech at the Grand Banquet Celebrating Second Anniversary of Sihanouk's Coming to China (March 19, 1972) Report on the Work of the Government (January 13, 1975) Links Related Archives
Cesare Moreno | Attività e riconoscimenti presidente È il maestro con i sandali, messi in segno di protesta anni fa, perché Chance aveva ricevuto i vestiti, (i fondi della Legge 285), ma le istituzioni erano carenti nelle attività ordinarie e di base: le scarpe. Dal 1998 è uno dei coordinatori del progetto Chance, per il recupero dei drop-out della scuola media. Lavora in tutta Italia come formatore free lance alla formazione di docenti ed educatori per l’inclusione sociale. «Siamo come alpinisti, l'asperità della roccia non è ostacolo ma punto di appoggio» È maestro elementare dal 1983. È stato tra i fondatori del progetto Chance, recupero dei dispersi della scuola media, e suo coordinatore dal 1998 alla chiusura avvenuta nel 2009. Il 2 giugno 2001 gli è stato conferito il titolo di Cavaliere della Repubblica per le sue attività in merito al recupero degli adolescenti in situazioni difficili. Da giugno 2001 alla fine della legislatura è stato membro della Commissione Nazionale per il riordino dei cicli.
History 266: World History from the Renaissance to Imperialism--Lecture Notes Lecture Notes Developed by Lee M. Pappas and Nicholas C. J. Pappas Lecture 1: An Introduction to History. A. Lecture 2: The World in the 15th Century. A. Lecture 3: Fifteenth Century Europe: Social and Economic Changes A. Lecture 4: Fifteenth Century Europe: Cultural Changes: The Renaissance. A. Lecture 5: Sixteenth Century Europe: Cultural Changes--The Reformation. A. Lecture 6: Lecture Protestants, Catholics and the Wars of Religion. While Lutheranism was essentially sober, restrained, and moderate in nature as it spread throughout Germany and Scandinavia, the Protestant wave produced far reaching religious change in other areas in Europe. Lecture 7: The Ottoman Empire and the Muscovy. A. Lecture 8: The Expansion of Europe: Initial Phase and General effects, 1400-1600. Overview: The European discovery of America was a complete accident: a momentous piece of serendipity on the part of men who had set out to look for something else. A. Lecture 10: State Formation in Early Modern Europe.
What If China Had a Second Political Party Tomorrow? At age eighty-eight, Sidney Rittenberg has had a singularly remarkable life. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he joined the Army, studied Chinese, and was posted to China in 1944. He stayed after the war ended and became the only American citizen to join the Chinese Communist Party. He came to know Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and other senior leaders, though it didn’t prevent him being imprisoned twice amid China’s turmoil, first in 1949, and again in 1968. I saw Rittenberg speak in Beijing yesterday, and his comments, on topics ranging from nationalism to corruption to Tibet policy, were perceptive. On the prospects for multi-party democracy: If you had a second party alternative in China now, I think it would be an anti-foreign party. On the Chinese government’s responsibility to whistleblowers who expose corruption: Protect whistleblowers, protect journalists and those who expose wrongdoing. You have to protect those who expose [wrongdoing], or talk of fighting corruption is just talk.
"La classe che vorrei" alle Marconi. L'innovazione didattica passa attraverso la partecipazione “Scopo della didattica è rendere gli studenti partecipi del discorso” è con questo slogan che si apre il progetto "La classe che vorrei" il progetto della scuola secondaria di primo grado “G. Marconi” di Modena. Il “discorso” è quello intorno all’innovazione didattica sollecitata dalle Indicazioni Nazionali, così come dagli obiettivi EU2020, per fronteggiare l’annosa questione della dispersione scolastica. “La classe che vorrei”, della quale lunedì 7 marzo si presentano alle famiglie i progetti di fattibilità e le prime realizzazioni, rappresenta il percorso di sperimentazione triennale che ha coinvolto tutte le otto classi 1^ dell’Istituto “Marconi” e che ha come obiettivo la partecipazione diretta dei ragazzi alla costruzione di ambienti di apprendimento, dove il successo scolastico è indissolubile dallo stare bene a scuola. Mentre gli insegnanti si formavano sulle ultime frontiere della didattica, come quella introdotta dal Prof.
The Middle Ages | Feudalism Characteristics of the Feudal World Timeline The Middle Ages or medieval time is believed to have started with the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 and to have lasted about 1,000 years until about 1450. The beginning of the Middle Ages is called the Dark Ages because the great civilizations of Rome and Greece had been conquered. The end of the Middle Ages in about 1450 led to the beginning of the Renaissance. The principal features of the Renaissance were that learning became important, the lords and the church were both becoming powerful forces for change, the art world was flourishing with innovations like the development of perspective in painting and there was great advancement in science. The barbarians were prevalent in most of the European nations of the Middle Ages. It should be noted that other parts of the world were thriving in this era. The People Life was very hard in the Middle Ages. The Family Family life was governed by the place one held in society.
'The Revolutionary': An Unrequited Love For China Mao Zedong signs Sidney Rittenberg's copy of The Little Red Book during a gathering of party leaders in Beijing on May 1, 1967, at the beginning of China's Cultural Revolution. Courtesy of Sidney Rittenberg hide caption itoggle caption Courtesy of Sidney Rittenberg Sidney Rittenberg went to China as an American GI at the end of World War II and fell in love with the country. By the time Rittenberg came back to the United States, more than 30 years later, he had become one of only a few American citizens to join the Chinese Communist Party. Sidney Rittenberg exhorts a crowd in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to defend Mao Zedong Thought — or Maoism — in December 1966. Sidney Rittenberg exhorts a crowd in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to defend Mao Zedong Thought — or Maoism — in December 1966. Courtesy of Sidney Rittenberg Rittenberg saw Chinese history unfold, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the Great Leap Forward, great famines and the Cultural Revolution.
Le sette lezioni finlandesi Nella patria di Alvar Aalto ci si potrebbe aspettare che il design delle scuole sia ormai una scienza esatta. Ma il segreto del successo del sistema scolastico finlandese, da oltre dieci anni sempre al primo o secondo posto delle classifiche Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) e con un tasso di raggiungimento della licenza media superiore del 93% nella popolazione generale, forse è proprio nella continua ricerca di miglioramento. Non a caso uno dei mantra finlandesi è “un’architettura migliore, migliora l’esperienza della scuola” sviluppato per la scuola Saunalahti, uno degli istituti fiore all’occhiello del sistema finnico che sorge alle porte di Helsinki. L’immobile, che spicca per le sue grandi vetrate e l’ampio utilizzo del legno chiaro tipico del paese è caratterizzato da grandi open space pensati per essere vissuti come il soggiorno di casa fondendo le classi con gli ambienti comuni. 1) Ragazzi al centro della progettazione. 2) Stoccaggio. 4) Personalizzazione.
Prof. John Paul Adams Department of Modern and Classical Languages and LiteraturesCollege of Humanities OFFICE HOURS: None. "Adding to the store of human knowledge ... is one of the noblest activities of a public University." - Lee Bollinger, President, Columbia University "Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure." - Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919-1988) President, Yale University (1963-1977) "I've worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves lives on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes, but rewards those who can make money in securities with sums reaching into the billions. - Warren Buffet, Chair, Berkshire Hathaway "A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution."
Israel Epstein, Prominent Chinese Communist, Dies at 90 Correction Appended Israel Epstein, a journalist, author and propagandist for China whose passion for Communism was fueled in long interviews with Mao in the 1940's and was not dimmed by imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, died last Thursday at a hospital in Beijing. He was 90. His death was announced by the official New China News Agency. Mr. He and perhaps a dozen other aging foreign-born residents of Beijing were sometimes seen as the last true believers in a revolution that has sometimes seemed blurred by time's passage and China's embrace of free markets and consumerism. In 1996, The Observer, the London newspaper, said, "Perhaps the most loyal Communists in the country today are foreigners, veteran fellow travelers from a vanished era of idealism." Mr. "My basic ideas have not changed," he told The Observer. Israel Epstein was born on April 20, 1915, in Warsaw, then under Russian control. "The earliest influence on me came from my socialist parents," Mr. Mr. Mr. In 1944, Mr.