So in the classroom, one of the things
I often hope to see students do, or they end up doing on their own
anyway, is bringing current events into conversation with the past.
This is especially important in classes like World History,
where the students are not necessarily all going to become historians,
but what we hope is they will become better informed citizens of the world
who understand things like the global flow of commodities and peoples
over time, and how that's evolving and how it's shaping our world.
Even in the present.