Education according to Richard Kahn

In Richard Kahns "Towards Ecopedagogy: Weaving a Broad-based Pedagogy of Liberation for Animals, Nature, and the Oppressed People of the Earth," he makes several points about America's current environmental education system.  He reports that while most Americans support environmental education in the school system and workplace, there is still many problems. "For example, the same studies that revealed Americans’ overwhelming support for environmental education programs reported a variety of findings that demonstrate that most Americans continue to have an almost shameful mis- understanding of the most basic environmental ideas."  One of these ideas is that 45 million Americans think the ocean is a source of fresh water.  So in reality, no matter how much support society gives  to the idea of environment education, the reality is, is that support is useless if no one is actually knowledgeable about the environment.  He then goes on to say that education is not where we can stop, because changing the environment will call for total mind and heart transformations of people.