Kahn Quote

            In Richard Kahn’s “Toward Ecopedagogy”, he makes many meaningful quotes, but one really stood out to me. Ones of the last things the Kahn says is that “education remains a primary institution towards affecting social and ecological change for the better, and so it deserves to be fought for, transformed by the needs of the day, and so wizened by lessons of the past” (Kahn18). This quotation is a strong one to end a long article because it summarizes what he had to say.

            Throughout the whole of the article, Kahn talks about how the best way to get people on the environmental track is through education and I strongly agree with that. The only way people will ever find out what is wrong with the world is through education. Kahn suggests more environmental education classes for children and I also think that this is a good idea. If people find out at an early age what is up with the world, they will more likely grow up trying to figure out ways to fix it.

            The quote stood out to me because of how strong it is and because of how it perfectly summarized everything that it took Kahn eighteen pages to do.