The statement made by Gingrich was on its face wrong. That is my belief. I believe this because our world is connected.

The products America imports, the jobs we export, the travel throughout our globe, the Embassies’ we have built in many foreign lands, the concept of the United Nations and the education (equal) we provide in this country is to a largely global student body.

We are co-inhabitants of this planet. We all strive for the same family unity, we work together to defeat world hunger, we share a space station, we share scientific breakthroughs that defeat disease, we strive for world peace and we work as a unit (in most cases) to be conscious of our environment in which we all must reside. This is a short list of the many ways in which we all are global citizens.

Education should have no boundaries that divide a people or a nation. Education should co-mingle its effective teachings and techniques with other nations. We all have an obligation to learn about the world in which we live. How societies truly are connected – that is a very large equation to being an educated person.

Imagine for just a moment that each state in North America were its own country. Would each entity not directly affect its neighbor? We would be affected by our neighbors if only through coexisting on the same planet, which would make us a global citizen.

There are far too many educational values to be obtained through shared efforts. Earthquakes or warnings of Tsunamis, the planets oceans are tied and bound. Natural resources, languages and literature or mere scientific discoveries, all play a role in making us citizens of the globe.

Education in so many regards would be so extremely limited if we were not to see ourselves as citizens of the globe. The globe is a part of mankind’s history; which dictates that we are all joined citizens, if in name only (to some) of our global society.