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On the relevance of education...

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Well, I guess the first thing I would say is…

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Welcome to Canada!

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but, welcome to Canada...

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I’d say education is relevant.

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I’d be very surprised if anyone said that is not relevant.

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And I think it’s relevant not simply for the facts that you learn…

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Learning facts is good, but you know, facts change over time,

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what’s true changes over time, what you need to know changes over time…

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So it’s not simply the facts that you learn that make education relevant.

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I think that education gives you new ways of seeing the world,

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new recognitions of things that are out there,

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new opportunities of things that you can do

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and new understanding and possibilities for your life that you can have,

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that you might not have had otherwise, without an education.

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An education is what opens the world to you.

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A lot of people would say that an education is important

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in order to have material success,

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to get a job and all of that, and that’s true,

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but it’s also important to know that education is by itself

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not going to be sufficient to do this. You can’t just say:

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“Oh, we will educate the population

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and then they automatically be prosperous and peaceful and all of that"

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I mean, it takes more than that.

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I think an education is necessary for that to occur,

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but you also have to, over time, build the society as a whole.

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Education helps to do that, but it takes a wider good will in all of society…

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I’m not sure how to express that exactly, but...

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the idea...

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the belief in a society that everybody in this society is important

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and everybody in society contributes…

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If you have a society like that,

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where everybody believes in everybody else in the society,

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then education becomes a very powerful tool

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to help you as a community develop into something more,

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and to have an interesting life…

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Thank you.