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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.