Monday, December 1, 2014

Social Justice Project: Problems with Our World - Interviewing Dan Gartrell

Some people focus on different issues with our world and try to change that one thing. If everyone did that, amazing things would get accomplished. I wanted to know what my grandfather focused on because he used to be a professor of education, and still writes about early development for children, so he might have a more educated opinion than someone else.

My Grandpa Dan thought the best thing about the world was that when a baby is born, it has vast and infinite potential. Anything that robs the child of these possibilities and this potential should therefore be stopped.

That includes poverty. He believes that poverty causes stress about where you are going to sleep tomorrow night, what you will eat, how you will get clothes on your back. The parents of a toddler now also have one more mouth to feed, not to mention the amount of hardships poverty will cause once the child is in school. Making a bright future happen for a kid from a bleak past seems extremely challenging. These are no living conditions for a toddler, according to him.

Thus, he said, as would be logical, poverty is a major priority on his list of unjust things about the world. The way to stop this is to increase support by any means possible, and reduce poverty to almost nothing or as far as we can go. 

When asked how a single person can make change, may it be small or large, he said that that's up to the individual. He changes poverty by writing and teaching about stress levels. His wife works at a homeless shelter. In these ways, they have together found a way to make a change.

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