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Because it is a part of being human,
because education should be about
broadening out world view,
anthropology, in particular, takes a viewpoint
of the people.
So, I think it’s significant in that way.
If a person is to be educated, shouldn’t
they know about the rest of the world?
Shouldn’t they have a sophisticated knowledge?
Sometimes people that I meet want to know,
but they feel that it’s too complicated and they
read the newspaper and they don’t understand.
So, by getting this kind of background,
they are prepared to go on and to know further,
to know in different ways.
I think that’s the inspiring part of education,
is that it gives us the tools for later life.
So it gives us a kind of ability to persevere,
an ability to understand.
Ultimately, I think it helps us develop compassion.
But it isn’t a kind of compassion
that is just bleeding heart compassion.
It’s a kind of compassion that involves some
activism, some sense of understanding of
your own life, and that awareness of yourself
in the world allows people to change.
It allows people to have a tool to both
access more information, but also to have
a different kind of understanding of the information.