Daniel Barenboim Quotes
I believe education is much more important than we assume.
Barenboim, Daniel. Everything is Connected: The Power of Music. Other Press, 2008.
Traditional Islamic education of the time only dealt with the Koran but the skills of modern life, medicine, law, science were taught in the British secular schools, which Muslims generally would not attend. Kahn urged all is fellow Muslims to benefit from all forms of education.
This quotation from the great educator is frequently used in the argument over testing in schools which measure in large part the transmission of knowledge. This was especially true in the “No Child Left Behind Program of the George W. Bush Administration.
Daniel Barenboim is a pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain.