Professor Kusahara and President Obama

In our last moments of our program, we were graced by the presence of Professor Katsuhide Kusahara, a member of the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO. He spoke eloquently about the importance of ESD. Mr. Kusahara began his talk quoting President Obama on Universal Values: “ Our Challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new, but those values upon which our success depends, honesty, hardwork, courage, fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism – these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history, what is demanded is a return to these truths.”