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Gulen Inspired Schools: Lessons that Matter

"A good lesson is one that does more than provide pupils with useful information or skills; it should elevate them into the presence of the unknown"

M. Fethullah Gulen, Sizinti - March 1981

Up until this point, my life has been pressed within a world that struggles to unite people around universal values. This is one of the reasons why I want to share my learning experience at a Gulen Inspired School and to express some brief, humble thoughts on how, I imagine, we might try make a world that will become a better place to live in and pass on to future generations.

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Sunday, 18 April  2010      Dan Berrett

For more than a decade, one of the world's most influential and controversial Muslim leaders has been convalescing on 26 acres in the Pocono Mountains.In Ross Township — not far from the Blue Ridge flea market, a giant corn maze dubbed Mazezilla and a go-kart speedway — you will find a small metal sign bearing the name of the Golden Generation Worship and Retreat Center.

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Thursday, 18 March 2010     Mustafa Akyol

Mustafa Akyol, an important figure in Turkey’s intellectual fabric, wrote on the Gulen Movement and the fear mongering that’s going on around it. Akyol emphasizes on the disinformation that plagued the Turkish society for so long and how the Gulen Movement’s acts should be read in today’s context.

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Thursday, 15 April 2010   Amb. David Newton, Middle East Institute

Every great information or communication advance in history has been seen in its time as furthering education a benefit that has certainly proved to be correct. These advances, such as printing, the telegraph, the telephone, the radio, television, the computer, and the internet, however, were in large part also touted as promoting understanding and even peace.  In some cases one could argue a benefit.  A government could use the media to help defuse s crisis, as the Kennedy administration did during the Cuban missile crisis.

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Friday, 09 April 2010    Veli Keskin

Some say they are the best schools around, and some say they can’t be that good without support from global powers. Some say they serve for global peace, and some other say: “Don’t be naive they must have a hidden agenda”.  I will not get into questions like “water of the mill” as they have been addressed previously. The main question I am going after is, what are really Gulen Inspired Schools? What makes them standout? How can you distinguish a Gulen Inspired School from any other public or community school?