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Between the values of education and national dialogue
I attended a few days ago at the University of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, an important conference for Magna Charta ambassadors of living values for education in universities, which is a project to integrate the six values adopted by the Bologna process in higher education in the conscience of university administration, faculty members, students and workers to create a university community The best are:
1- Integrity; 2- Justice and fairness; 3- Creativity, innovation and excellence. 4- Social responsibility and community service; 5- Diversity, pluralism and inclusiveness, 6- Health, well-being and community solidarity.
Noting that the principles of the Bologna Declaration to which the joint universities adhere include the following basic principles:
1. That the university is an independent institution in the heart of societies; It produces, examines, evaluates and disseminates culture by means of research and education, to meet the needs of the world around it, and its research education must be morally and intellectually independent of all political or economic power.
2. The foundation of the university’s existence is freedom in research and training. These are the basic principles of university life, and governments and universities, each individually, must ensure that this basic requirement is respected, while rejecting intolerance and always being open to dialogue.
The university is an ideal meeting place for teachers who are able to transfer and produce knowledge, and that their knowledge is well-equipped to develop research and innovation, and to create an atmosphere that enables students to qualify for life, and to prepare them to be able to enrich their minds and souls with this knowledge.
It is the university’s continuing goal to achieve, transfer and disseminate global knowledge; To achieve its mission, it transcends geographical and political boundaries, emphasizing the vital need for different cultures and knowledge to influence one another.
I had published an important research paper with a colleague from Switzerland entitled “Universities: Civilization Makers or Educational Service Providers” in which I indicated that the university should meet four goals, namely “achieving well-being, order, meaning, and the search for truth” and ended it with Dr. Taha Hussein’s statement about universities, which he wrote In his valuable book “The Future of Culture in Egypt”, in which he says:
“The university does not consist of the world alone, but rather the educated and civilized person who is not sufficient for him to be educated, rather it means for him to be a source of culture, and it is not sufficient for him to be civilized, but rather for him to be a developer of civilization.”
This topic sparked dialogues with young dreamers and young men from my family, especially as we are at the beginning of a national dialogue about the future of the country and the possibility of creating a new republic….
The youth reminded me of our set of dialogues on values, in which we reached a set of values that must be integrated into the conscience of the youth community and children in the family, school and university, as if we had preceded the Magna Carta in making these values alive and interactive. I had reached with them the following sets of values:
First: freedom, justice and responsibility.
Second: honesty, integrity and honesty.
Third: knowledge, accuracy and mastery.
Fourth: Courage, citizenship, forgiveness, mercy, benevolence, forgiveness, compassion, gratitude, righteousness, interdependence and positive patience.
Fifth: beauty, happiness and contentment
Sixth: friendship, love and giving.
Seventh: Cleanliness, environmental balance and self-respect
The smart young man said: Is there a project that we should adopt to integrate these values into the educational curricula according to the age stages, and in school and university behavior, and within the family..
I said: This is a major work in which the state should participate culturally, artistically and in the media, with the Ministries of Education and Youth.. These are matters that lack of interest in them has become extremely dangerous… What we see is manifestations of mass fraud in which parents and teachers participate without embarrassment, and the blatant interference in privacy Citizens who differ in opinion, religion, or way of dressing, and even incitement to harassment and abuse for those who do not follow the herd of the loudest voice, and intellectual terrorism for those who dare to think outside what some think are religious constants that are in fact human, with the absence of freedom of expression and considering constructive criticism as hostility to the state ….All of these and other matters affect behavioral values that contradict the essence of society’s peace, the essence of all religions, and the rights that humanity has reached….
An angry young woman said: If your Excellency invites us to participate in the creation of a new republic, then whoever manages the dialogue should listen to our words, make the constitution a method for running the country, amend what must be amended after it has been determined, and apply what has not been applied despite the passage of 8 years since its approval…
Her colleague said: I am afraid, Doctor, that the mere call for dialogue has become a source of pride and boasting alone, as if we have achieved salvation… I am also afraid, sir, of the caravans of hypocrites who fill the political void with praise, and the caravans of religious priests who threaten everyone, especially the Egyptian woman, with aggression and even murder if they do not agree With their mental catalogue, demolition groups adopt rejecting everything all the time, always returning us to zero without a constructive strategy.
I said: Therefore, there must be pre-determinants of the dialogue, and I see them clearly defined in front of me…..
As stated in the preamble to the constitution:
We are now writing a constitution that completes the building of a modern democratic state with a civilian government.”
“The political system is based on political and partisan pluralism, peaceful transfer of power, separation of powers and balance between them, responsibility with power, and respect for human rights and freedoms, as set out in the constitution.”
This is the preamble to the constitution and Article Five of it, which was approved by the Egyptian people by an overwhelming majority in 2014. Amendments in 2019 were not attached to this introduction nor Article Five, as unfortunately happened to others. The constitution is our reference in managing and preserving Egypt.
And the modern civil state, guys, has a government that preserves and protects all members of society, regardless of their national, religious, or intellectual affiliations.
Between the values of education and national dialogue
I attended a few days ago at the University of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, an important conference for Magna Charta ambassadors of living values for education in universities, which is a project to integrate the six values adopted by the Bologna process in higher education in the conscience of university administration, faculty members, students and workers to create a university community The best are:
1- Integrity; 2- Justice and fairness; 3- Creativity, innovation and excellence. 4- Social responsibility and community service; 5- Diversity, pluralism and inclusiveness, 6- Health, well-being and community solidarity.
Noting that the principles of the Bologna Declaration to which the joint universities adhere include the following basic principles:
1. That the university is an independent institution in the heart of societies; It produces, examines, evaluates and disseminates culture by means of research and education, to meet the needs of the world around it, and its research education must be morally and intellectually independent of all political or economic power.
2. The foundation of the university’s existence is freedom in research and training. These are the basic principles of university life, and governments and universities, each individually, must ensure that this basic requirement is respected, while rejecting intolerance and always being open to dialogue.
The university is an ideal meeting place for teachers who are able to transfer and produce knowledge, and that their knowledge is well-equipped to develop research and innovation, and to create an atmosphere that enables students to qualify for life, and to prepare them to be able to enrich their minds and souls with this knowledge.
It is the university’s continuing goal to achieve, transfer and disseminate global knowledge; To achieve its mission, it transcends geographical and political boundaries, emphasizing the vital need for different cultures and knowledge to influence one another.
I had published an important research paper with a colleague from Switzerland entitled “Universities: Civilization Makers or Educational Service Providers” in which I indicated that the university should meet four goals, namely “achieving well-being, order, meaning, and the search for truth” and ended it with Dr. Taha Hussein’s statement about universities, which he wrote In his valuable book “The Future of Culture in Egypt”, in which he says:
“The university does not consist of the world alone, but rather the educated and civilized person who is not sufficient for him to be educated, rather it means for him to be a source of culture, and it is not sufficient for him to be civilized, but rather for him to be a developer of civilization.”
This topic sparked dialogues with young dreamers and young men from my family, especially as we are at the beginning of a national dialogue about the future of the country and the possibility of creating a new republic….
The youth reminded me of our set of dialogues on values, in which we reached a set of values that must be integrated into the conscience of the youth community and children in the family, school and university, as if we had preceded the Magna Carta in making these values alive and interactive. I had reached with them the following sets of values:
First: freedom, justice and responsibility.
Second: honesty, integrity and honesty.
Third: knowledge, accuracy and mastery.
Fourth: Courage, citizenship, forgiveness, mercy, benevolence, forgiveness, compassion, gratitude, righteousness, interdependence and positive patience.
Fifth: beauty, happiness and contentment
Sixth: friendship, love and giving.
Seventh: Cleanliness, environmental balance and self-respect
The smart young man said: Is there a project that we should adopt to integrate these values into the educational curricula according to the age stages, and in school and university behavior, and within the family..
I said: This is a major work in which the state should participate culturally, artistically and in the media, with the Ministries of Education and Youth.. These are matters that lack of interest in them has become extremely dangerous… What we see is manifestations of mass fraud in which parents and teachers participate without embarrassment, and the blatant interference in privacy Citizens who differ in opinion, religion, or way of dressing, and even incitement to harassment and abuse for those who do not follow the herd of the loudest voice, and intellectual terrorism for those who dare to think outside what some think are religious constants that are in fact human, with the absence of freedom of expression and considering constructive criticism as hostility to the state ….All of these and other matters affect behavioral values that contradict the essence of society’s peace, the essence of all religions, and the rights that humanity has reached….
An angry young woman said: If your Excellency invites us to participate in the creation of a new republic, then whoever manages the dialogue should listen to our words, make the constitution a method for running the country, amend what must be amended after it has been determined, and apply what has not been applied despite the passage of 8 years since its approval…
Her colleague said: I am afraid, Doctor, that the mere call for dialogue has become a source of pride and boasting alone, as if we have achieved salvation… I am also afraid, sir, of the caravans of hypocrites who fill the political void with praise, and the caravans of religious priests who threaten everyone, especially the Egyptian woman, with aggression and even murder if they do not agree With their mental catalogue, demolition groups adopt rejecting everything all the time, always returning us to zero without a constructive strategy.
I said: Therefore, there must be pre-determinants of the dialogue, and I see them clearly defined in front of me…..
As stated in the preamble to the constitution:
We are now writing a constitution that completes the building of a modern democratic state with a civilian government.”
“The political system is based on political and partisan pluralism, peaceful transfer of power, separation of powers and balance between them, responsibility with power, and respect for human rights and freedoms, as set out in the constitution.”
This is the preamble to the constitution and Article Five of it, which was approved by the Egyptian people by an overwhelming majority in 2014. Amendments in 2019 were not attached to this introduction nor Article Five, as unfortunately happened to others. The constitution is our reference in managing and preserving Egypt.
And the modern civil state, guys, has a government that preserves and protects all members of society, regardless of their national, religious, or intellectual affiliations.
