2001 Saint John Convocation
Graduation Address
Delivered by: Anderson, John Murray
Content
"Keep Dreaming; Speakers at UNBSJ’s Fall Convocation Reflect on Recent Events in the US and Tell Graduates to Keep Living Their Lives" Telegraph-Journal (22 October 2001). (UA Case 69, Box 3)
John Anderson, a former Biology professor at UNB Fredericton, who helped establish the Atlantic Salmon Federation, also received an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
Mr. Anderson said cultural education would help us overcome the environmental and militaristic challenges threatening our survival. But, he said this won’t be an easy task since most of the world’s population has little to no formal education.
"And this process is regrettably further compromised by the fact—so clearly made on September 11 in the United States—that there are education systems elsewhere in the world quite different from ours," said Mr. Anderson.
"I believe the answer lies in globalization of education. I am convinced it has to be education, certainly not warfare, which holds hope for the future."
Mr. Anderson urged students to act locally but think globally. He told graduates not to take their education for granted, and challenged them to increase the number of people in the world with college graduates.
John Anderson, a former Biology professor at UNB Fredericton, who helped establish the Atlantic Salmon Federation, also received an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
Mr. Anderson said cultural education would help us overcome the environmental and militaristic challenges threatening our survival. But, he said this won’t be an easy task since most of the world’s population has little to no formal education.
"And this process is regrettably further compromised by the fact—so clearly made on September 11 in the United States—that there are education systems elsewhere in the world quite different from ours," said Mr. Anderson.
"I believe the answer lies in globalization of education. I am convinced it has to be education, certainly not warfare, which holds hope for the future."
Mr. Anderson urged students to act locally but think globally. He told graduates not to take their education for granted, and challenged them to increase the number of people in the world with college graduates.
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