THURSDAY OCTOBER 29TH, 2009

A Girls Preparatory School student (left), with Dean Jennifer Good (center), and Paula Mirk (right) after the Global Think Tank. Girls Preparatory School Staff Photo.

Paula Mirk, the director of Education at the Institute for Global Ethics, was the keynote speaker Thursday on the opening day of the first Global Think Tank sponsored by Girls Preparatory School. Ms. Mirk presented the more than 40 attendees from national and local schools with the question, “What does it mean to be a global citizen?”

Her ensuing conversation with the audience revealed her belief that “ethics can be a linchpin” to students’ finding a connection between personal experience and the curriculum that they study. The institute’s work, she said, is to encourage the use of a “language of ethics” that answers the question “What’s right?” instead of “What’s in it for me?” or “Who’s winning?”

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