About the Professor

Marlyn Tadros has been teaching computer and internet technologies and programming languages at the Arts Institute of New England in Brookline for 10 years. She is a Research Affiliate at the Middle East Center at Northeastern University and is managing editor of its new Journal of New Media Studies. She was also a Visiting Scholar in the Women's Department at NEU. Tadros occasionally teaches human rights and Middle East Studies in the Political Science Department, and was also a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard University. Tadros has been appointed several times to the International Fellowships Panel of the American Association of University Women. She has also founded a non-profit organization namely Virtual Activism a pioneering project that deals with the intersection between technology and human rights and development. Tadros organizes training workshops on technology and human rights in several countries around the world, with special focus on the Middle East. She is also author of numerous papers on the Middle East with several publications in both English and Arabic, the most recent of which was a chapter published by Emerald Publishing entitled Social Media in Higher Education, in Euducating Educators with Social Media, Charles Wankel (ed.), and a paper published by MIT 2011.

 

Teaching Philosophy

On Teaching
 Kahlil Gibran

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.

And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.