Karzai says his office gets cash from Iran, US

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that once or twice a year, Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses and that Washington also provides "bags of money" because his office lacks funds.
Karzai's comments come a day after The New York Times reported that Iran was giving bags of cash to the president's chief of staff, Umar Daudzai, to buy his loyalty and promote Iranian interests in Afghanistan.
The Times quoted unnamed sources as saying the cash amounted to a slush fund that Karzai and Daudzai had used to pay Afghan lawmakers, tribal elders — and even Taliban commanders — to secure their loyalty.
Karzai told reporters Monday that he had instructed Daudzai, a former ambassador to Iran, to accept the money from Tehran.
"It is official and by my order," Karzai said.
He added that several nations have given money to his office — the first being the United Arab Emirates, which provided $1.5 million nine years ago when Afghanistan's interim government was formed.
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Teacher interview ( check this out! )

well I interviewed a couple of teachers & I avearged out thier responses and it came down to, Education is not being taken as serioulsy as it should be in America. Are teachers are not being paid enough or appreciated enough, as a country we are retarted compared to china or Asia, Japan, etc. "Our Goverment has too much conrtol over education"(Mr.Matsler) some teachers have said that we have lost our role as leaders of education, and teachers have lost alot of respect due to thier low budget cuts. EDUCATION IS NOT BEING PUT NUMBER 1 , that is not entirely our teachers fault it is the goverments responsibility to enforce these rules and regs.

Do you agree w/Digital Education?

the movement to use computers more in education naturally includes many unrelated ideas, methods, and pedagogies since there are many uses for digital computers. For example, the fact that computers are naturally good at math leads to the question of the use of calculators in math education. The Internet's communication capabilities make it potentially useful for collaboration, and foreign language learning. The computer's ability to simulate physical systems makes it potentially useful in teaching science. More often, however, debate of digital education reform centers around more general applications of computers to education, such as electronic test-taking and online classes.
The idea of creating artificial intelligence led some computer scientists to believe that teachers could be replaced by computers, through something like an expert system however, attempts to accomplish this have predictably proved inflexible. The computer is now more understood to be a tool or assistant for the teacher and students.
Harnessing the richness of the Internet is another goal. In some cases classrooms have been moved entirely online, while in other instances the goal is more to learn how the Internet can be more than a classroom.

Education reform in America

Classical times

Plato believed that children would never learn unless they wanted to learn. In The Republic, he said, " . . compulsory learning never sticks in the mind." An important educational debate in the time of the Roman Empire arose after Christianity had achieved broad acceptance. The question concerned the educational value of pre-Christian classical thought: "Given that the body of knowledge of the pre-Christian Romans was heathen in origin, was it safe to teach it to Christian children?"<sup>[citation needed]

in my opinion  believe that education is key to success in any country period. Theirs  nothing more powerful than Brain Power.</sup>