About this education title
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Mortenson, Greg is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.In April 2011, the CBS documentary "60 Minutes" called into question Greg Mortenson's work. The program alleged inaccuracies in Three Cups of Tea and its sequel, Stones into Schools as well as financial improprieties in the operation of Mortenson's Central Asia Institute. Questions were also raised about Mortenson's claim that he got lost near K2 and ended up in Korphe; that he was captured by the Taliban in 1996; the number of schools the CAI claimed to have built and whether CAI funds had been used appropriately for Mortenson's book tours. View the broadcast. Jon Krakauer, who had supported the CAI to the tune of $75,000, also questioned Mortenson's accounts and released his allegations in a lengthy article titled Three Cups of DeceitAuszeichnung : isbn searchedwords : 128802
It is typically read by teachers and faculty preparing courses and curriculum.
Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- Mortenson, Greg
- Publisher
- Viking; Penguin Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670917426
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, Memoir