Teaching
Professor Virani's teaching experience spans not only a diversity of subject matters but educational contexts as well. He has taught illiterate boatmen on the banks of the Ganges in Benares and members of the royal family in Abu Dhabi, Afghan refugee children in Calgary and Indonesian mullahs at McGill, troubled teenagers from inner-city high schools and both graduate and undergraduate students at Harvard.
He is currently Chair of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. Professor Virani loves teaching and has enjoyed learning from students of incredibly diverse backgrounds, in numerous countries and a variety of languages.
The recipient of many teaching awards, Dr. Virani has pioneered the incorporation of multimedia and computer innovations in the curriculum to supplement traditional teaching methods. He is the first professor in North America to incorporate the I-clicker classroom response system into the teaching of history and religion.
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“Teaching creativity to your child isn’t like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person’s precepts about elbows on the table.”
—Gurney Williams III (20th century)
“It may be that through habit these do best,
Coming to water clumsily undressed
Yearly; teaching their children by a sort
Of clowning; helping the old, too, as they ought.”
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—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)