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Sharif Ibrahim
Washington, DC
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"I'm gonna get so much sh#% for being on this show."
How could you go onto television and not know what you're talking about? lol ... And that was her first talking point!
I doubt this girl and I could ever have much in common, but I'm cringing throughout this. It only gets worse when she realizes its not her own blunder for being ignorant. Your dad would have had a heart attack...you can see it, can't you?
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Sharif commented on the article |Hello,
I agree with Jason in believing in your idea, but not as a substitute. I don't think you have to look at a Harvard study to realize the pay for teachers is very unattractive. However, TFA could be reformed to prepare teachers better and there could be bonuses for longer stints. Overall though, TFA is arguably as good of a way to serve the country as say, the military.
Schools need more public attention if we are going to be globally competitive and why not incorporate all of the above mentioned ideas and more. I would like to see a senior-elementary reading program open up or subsidized higher education fees for tutoring high school students.
The more cross-sectioning of groups of people in education; the better. The more program insurance and support; the better. The more talking about it...:) the better.
Great post!
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Sharif commented on the article |Overall, it would be a better world to live in if we could go where we wanted and when we wanted. But an earlier post about the wealth of an individual was correct.
Hopefully this trip gave the youths an experience which others experience in their own country. Americans have it easy when it comes to travelling, but I can't figure if their move was more ignorant or arrogant.
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Sharif commented on the article |"Second, I think that this argument reminds us of just how much opportunity there is to invest"
Invest does not always mean financially. This is especially true when you leave the West. Its always alarming to find how people outside of the Western world invest greater in relationships rather than capitalizing. Maybe its so alarming because this is so against our norm. In a world where the therapist has replaced the position of friend, or extended family member, I often ask myself, "where did we go wrong?"
There was a situation where I hired a camera man for a job in Egypt. Through a series of unfortunate events for the camera man, he lost half of the tapes and didn't turn on the camera for a quarter of the filming. This was a horrible situation for both parties, but my friend schooled me on how to handle the situation in traditional terms. Instead of cutting the man out and making him pay, we are now friends. I learned a valuable lesson of how to open up a relationship instead of playing a razor in a business deal.
A friend from Sudan and I were recently talking and he told me, "Sharif, this is the loneliest place on Earth. Everyone is going everywhere by themselves."
I just cannot explain how differently things are comparatively. This may look slighted through the lens of money, but I urge you to step out of ethnocentric scope and ask a foreigner how business relates to family back home. Food for thought: if experience is a virtue in life, why do only 15% of Americans have passports?
Lastly, in so many, many countries, the ability to become an entrepreneur is often checked by the government. Many times a bribe is the standard and this gives an unfair advantage to the bottom of the pyramid. In the case of talent, there can be a parallel drawn between the status of an entrepreneur and a natural social leader who never wears a title. You could ask what the value of elders is in our current society. Do nursing homes represent a success in our culture? Or does it just impede with our entreprenuerial goals? Where the fiber of social fabric in our society might lead to the success in capitalizing, another society might not deem it to be the top of the mountain.
P.S. As a student of history, this isn't mentioning tribal status privileges and colonial favoring which is unarguably prevalent and debilitating to the social entrepreneurial spirit.
P.S.S. I would never let my mom live in a nursing home, even if it meant I go broke.
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