1 00:00:02,980 --> 00:00:05,564 On the relevance of education... 2 00:00:05,564 --> 00:00:08,829 Well, I guess the first thing I would say is… 3 00:00:08,829 --> 00:00:10,684 Welcome to Canada! 4 00:00:13,392 --> 00:00:15,255 but, welcome to Canada... 5 00:00:16,347 --> 00:00:18,782 I’d say education is relevant. 6 00:00:18,782 --> 00:00:22,334 I’d be very surprised if anyone said that is not relevant. 7 00:00:22,334 --> 00:00:28,447 And I think it’s relevant not simply for the facts that you learn… 8 00:00:28,447 --> 00:00:32,809 Learning facts is good, but you know, facts change over time, 9 00:00:32,809 --> 00:00:36,963 what’s true changes over time, what you need to know changes over time… 10 00:00:36,963 --> 00:00:42,396 So it’s not simply the facts that you learn that make education relevant. 11 00:00:42,396 --> 00:00:48,587 I think that education gives you new ways of seeing the world, 12 00:00:48,587 --> 00:00:52,976 new recognitions of things that are out there, 13 00:00:52,976 --> 00:00:58,305 new opportunities of things that you can do 14 00:00:58,305 --> 00:01:03,399 and new understanding and possibilities for your life that you can have, 15 00:01:03,399 --> 00:01:06,899 that you might not have had otherwise, without an education. 16 00:01:06,899 --> 00:01:11,183 An education is what opens the world to you. 17 00:01:11,183 --> 00:01:15,049 A lot of people would say that an education is important 18 00:01:15,049 --> 00:01:17,301 in order to have material success, 19 00:01:17,301 --> 00:01:20,744 to get a job and all of that, and that’s true, 20 00:01:20,744 --> 00:01:26,413 but it’s also important to know that education is by itself 21 00:01:26,413 --> 00:01:30,906 not going to be sufficient to do this. You can’t just say: 22 00:01:30,906 --> 00:01:33,884 “Oh, we will educate the population 23 00:01:33,884 --> 00:01:38,638 and then they automatically be prosperous and peaceful and all of that" 24 00:01:38,638 --> 00:01:40,571 I mean, it takes more than that. 25 00:01:40,571 --> 00:01:43,708 I think an education is necessary for that to occur, 26 00:01:43,708 --> 00:01:50,576 but you also have to, over time, build the society as a whole. 27 00:01:50,576 --> 00:01:57,890 Education helps to do that, but it takes a wider good will in all of society… 28 00:01:57,890 --> 00:02:02,460 I’m not sure how to express that exactly, but... 29 00:02:05,491 --> 00:02:07,306 the idea... 30 00:02:07,306 --> 00:02:11,874 the belief in a society that everybody in this society is important 31 00:02:11,874 --> 00:02:14,963 and everybody in society contributes… 32 00:02:14,963 --> 00:02:17,654 If you have a society like that, 33 00:02:17,654 --> 00:02:22,262 where everybody believes in everybody else in the society, 34 00:02:22,262 --> 00:02:25,057 then education becomes a very powerful tool 35 00:02:25,057 --> 00:02:30,321 to help you as a community develop into something more, 36 00:02:30,321 --> 00:02:32,999 and to have an interesting life… 37 00:02:32,999 --> 00:02:34,984 Thank you.