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  • What is education’s role in fostering responsible belief?

    May 6, 2025 1:45 pm by Sharita ForrestExpert Viewpoints
    Education’s fundamental purpose includes promoting communicative virtues such as empathy, open-mindedness and truthfulness, and providing opportunities for students to learn from and work with people of differing cultures, backgrounds and perspectives, Nicholas Burbules wrote in two recent papers. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • Education’s fundamental purpose includes promoting communicative virtues such as empathy, open-mindedness and truthfulness, and providing opportunities for students to learn from and work with people of differing cultures, backgrounds and perspectives, Nicholas Burbules wrote in two recent papers. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

    Higher education should teach students how to understand each other across our differences. It’s about being exposed to diversities and learning to deal with them productively by talking, listening and trying to understand and empathize.