Teachers say the arts help them connect across disciplinesbringing music into math class, sculpture into social studies, drawing into science and more. Anyone whos stood before an ancient sculpture and felt wonder, or listened to a piece of classical music and felt peace, or gazed at a Renaissance painting and experienced the sublime grasps the power of art to transmit emotion across the ages. Painting and ceramics, music and dance, photography and filmthese arent merely hobbies; they are some of humankinds most liberating pathways to creativity and catharsis. As human beings, we thrill to the excitement, joy and fun that the arts bring to the experience of learning, teaching and growing. After returning to Afghanistan in 2001, Mr. Khan in 2003 helped found and later manage a private, coeducational school for English and computer skills in the eastern city of Jalalabad that thrived amidst fighting and protests against U.S. forces.
Mr. Khan was against the missionaries in 2000.
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