Taoufik Allah Afkinich

A post from Overblog

Published on October 30 2025

One of the things that exasperates me is when I ran into texts that claim that the achievement of quality teaching (or as some put it, successful pedagogic reform) is dependent on finance and inves...

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Rosetta Stone

Published on October 30 2025

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JUSTICE

Published on February 11 2018

Justice is a tricky word. My belief is that with the rise of the city there also rose a need (urgent?) to give it an objectifying touch. Plato, , one of the very first to have toyed with this notion in a principled way in his work The Republic, somehow...

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Morocco in the eye of an Aussy

Published on January 27 2018

I invite you to go ahead and watch this wonderful documentary about Morocco, the place and the people. I love it! An Australian watching Morocco Part 1 https://youtu.be/L1UV-bBk-1U Part 2

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On people

Published on September 18 2017

“Today, virtually the entire population of the world lives within the borders of those separate territorial communities we call states—about six billion people are citizens or subjects of one state or another. For more than half a billion people living...

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The intellectual as an ordinary person

Published on September 16 2017

Allow me to share with you some writing by Rosen (2015) which struck me as interesting in its description of the ordinary person as an intellectual “Ordinary people have intellectual lives. They may never have written a book; they may never even have...

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Pride's Purge has moved

Published on May 15 2017

Pride's Purge has moved back to tompride.wordpress.com .

1 As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY". 2 As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody as...

For many years I lived with a guarded heart. I did not know how to extend love and compassion to myself. In my fortieth year that began changing. As I grew to love all of who I am, life started changing in beautiful and mysterious ways. My heart softened...