30 Mar 2021

Humility, Hope, and the Work of Becoming Educated

American Historian and Author

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Our commitment should be to be educated well—broadly with a humility that opens us to the widest possibilities for knowledge and hopefully, with an eye to how learning can enable us to contribute to a better future, not just for ourselves but for all the world.

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Drew Gilpin Faust, American historian and author, delivered this forum address on March 30, 2021.