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On the relevance of education…
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I don’t think I can speak to what makes education relevant
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in a global sense because I think it’s one of those things…
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learning is like love…
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it’s something that I think is very personal
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and is different for different people.
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Speaking for myself, when I was a student
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I was the kid who sat at the back of the room,
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who didn’t seem to be very engaged
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and I was probably someone who very easily could have
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went in directions when education didn’t speak to me.
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I was fortunate to have two or three wonderful
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learning experiences at important times in my life,
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and it's enriched my life and that’s why I still work in this field.
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So speaking for myself, and I think that’s the only person I can speak for,
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I’m interested in approaches to education
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that reach out to groups for whatever reason aren't engaged in.
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Sometimes it’s issues of poverty, sometimes it’s issues of access
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but in many cases like for me,
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often it is an issue of how education is framed,
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what kind of invitation is being issued to the people involved in education.
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I like to think that’s my very small interest
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within this very big and important field.