Quote from Interview with Dr. Hoda El Saady, Participant

Quote from Interview with Dr. Hoda El Saady, Participant

"This is an interesting question, because in history, through my discipline, my specialization, I always say history teaches us empathy. It's my experience in reading history and teaching history that I really appreciate empathy and I, I, as if this feeling of empathy was instilled in me through this experience of studying history and reading history, and then it made me connected to people, you know, I started putting myself in the shoes of other people, I started feeling for other people. And this connected me to different people, different backgrounds, different age groups, different nationalities, but you get this, this feeling of connectedness, I can expand more on this point. In history, we always say that you cannot, we cannot really judge people in history. We cannot we're not in a position to say that this is the bad ruler and this is a good one or this is black and white. You get the sense that there's nothing like black and white really in history, and you start feeling for other people. And trying to sort of what sort of putting yourself in the shoes, they acted in this way because it could be they had the, the background, the context, it made them act in this way. So you start understanding more of the circumstances. This experience that I got all this, this empathy or empathetic feeling that I got from reading history and seeing how I cannot really judge people throughout history. This feeling made me more empathetic and it made me connected to other people around me and other people, as I said, from different backgrounds, different age groups, different nationalities, as I said."

A response to the question, "How has education helped you feel connected to others?"

Darian Gray

2019

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