Education and Cultural Renewal
Discussion of schools, universities, curriculum, scientific freedom, civic education and cultural development. This area considers how education can help rebuild the nation and strengthen democratic citizenship.
Aerial view of the University of Tehran, c. 1971.
An aerial view of the University of Tehran shows education as national infrastructure: campuses, laboratories, libraries and institutions built to develop knowledge and professional capacity. Cultural renewal is not nostalgia. It depends on creating places where ideas can be tested, transmitted and challenged by successive generations.
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