Professor Magdi Yacoub Engages Manara College students on the Rules of Management

Sir Magdi Yacoub, world-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon and beloved Egyptian icon, was hosted by El Gouna-based Manara Faculty for a full-day occasion. He engaged with college students in discussions of management and humility in service. The day additionally supplied college students with numerous alternatives to have direct discussions with Dr. Yacoub about matters starting from his views on values and the ethics of decisions to sharing their very own innovations and creative creations with him.

“At its core, Manara’s mission is to develop future leaders, people geared up not solely with sturdy tutorial foundations, however with character, initiative, and sense of duty,” famous Todd Cuddington, Head of Manara Faculty. “Sir Magdi Yacoub stands as an icon not just for Egypt, however for the world and the qualities he represents are exactly these we search to domesticate in our college students.”

It’s this spirit that characterised the go to, which began with the total pupil physique, academics and employees celebrating the arrival of Dr. Yacoub on campus. This was adopted by a question-and-answer session with Manara college students holding management roles throughout the pupil physique as a part of the Pupil Management Program. Every pupil had the chance to debate their roles and tasks with Dr. Yacoub.

“I like [meeting] younger folks,” Dr. Yacoub had remarked, noting that interactions with college students all through the day gave him confidence, as he might see firsthand the scholars’ outstanding eagerness for information, management and serving their neighborhood. He had at all times seen his potential to go on information to future generations as one in every of his biggest achievements.

Dr. Yacoub then met with the total pupil physique, the place faculty founder Naguib Samih Sawiris led the dialogue by highlighting Dr. Yacoub’s illustrious profession. Sawiris famous that though practically everybody in Egypt is aware of Dr. Yacoub, his repute was constructed on advantage and laborious work, not a household title. He emphasised that merit-based achievement is a basic precept of the varsity’s philosophy, instilled in every one in every of its college students.

“What offers me confidence in Manara is the caliber of our college students,” Sawiris stated. “When distinctive younger individuals are held to excessive requirements in an setting that calls for each efficiency and integrity, they turn out to be a power able to shaping [this country’s] future. Sir Magdi Yacoub embodies the usual we aspire to at Manara – excellence grounded in humility, ambition guided by service and world achievement rooted in [the] Egyptian identification.”

This sentiment was echoed by Dr. Yacoub throughout his dialog with the scholars. He suggested them to hunt information all through their lives, to journey the world to achieve an understanding of how others dwell and to develop a very world perspective. However maybe his finest recommendation to them was about ethics and values. The physician famous that all through their lives, they are going to be confronted with decisions requiring them to strike a steadiness between their private values and the perceived good of assorted establishments and communities.

“Thou shall not do hurt,” Dr. Yacoub informed the scholars. “I’ll by no means hurt the neighborhood or the person. Generally, with regards to the person, the 2 [interests] separate and that turns into a dilemma. Do you profit the neighborhood on the expense of 1 particular person? By no means. I need to attempt to do each issues and that’s not [always] straightforward. […] You need to have braveness. […] You need to do what you suppose is appropriate, even when it harms you.”

For his half, Cuddington famous that the insights shared by Dr. Yacoub with the scholars of Manara replicate the core values the varsity is working to instill into the scholars as they work to turn out to be the leaders of the long run. “In Dr. Yacoub your entire pupil physique bought to fulfill an individual who excelled internationally as knowledgeable however extra importantly as a world chief in his chosen profession however determined to return to Egypt to assist the event of his nation.”

Manara Faculty presents its college students grades eight to 12 a singular expertise by bringing an internationally accredited training and coupling it with a residential program that enshrines management values comparable to government abilities, vital pondering, private accountability for choice making, and integrity in an immersive setting.

As a part of its mission, Manara presents college students from all around the nation the chance to affix the varsity based mostly on advantage, tutorial efficiency and dedication to excellence no matter gender, ethnicity, faith or monetary functionality out of the assumption {that a} degree enjoying discipline is required to create a extra equitable future for Egypt the place all can thrive.