Undergraduate / Dickinson students shall become globally engaged citizen leaders [5]

Dickinson College founder, statesman and physician Benjamin Rush wrote several essays on education for this new nation. Listed below are three of Rush's philosophies. Choose ONE and explain how that philosophy relates to your talents, goals and the reasons you chose to apply to Dickinson.

*Dickinson students shall become globally engaged citizen leaders.

"We will not rest until we reach a permanent agreement [with the Palestinians] that would secure a safe future for our children and that would provide us with renewed hope to live in a region where people lead a life of co-operation and not, God forbid, where blood is shed," said former Prime Minister and General, Yitzhak Rabin. Unfortunately, Rabin was assassinated before he was able to accomplish his goal; I willingly carry the weight of his task.

My determination, and Tikva: hope, for a peace between the warring nations of Israel and Palestine has been misunderstood for naiveté; however, after spending this past summer on Kibbutz Tzuba, and speaking with the people there and in the surrounding Arab villages, I see the reality of peace that Rabin did when shaking hands with Arafat.

I have taken all of the knowledge gained on Kibbutz Tzuba, and am now relaying it to a class of sophomores that I am teaching at my high school. The more educated rhetoric I can develop at Newton South, the closer we get to a unity in the Middle East.

Having emailed with Professor Ed Webb, the head of the Middle Eastern Studies department at Dickinson, I can see that our ideas of analytic education parallel, and that Dickinson's Middle Eastern Studies major, and Hebrew and Arabic minors serve as the proper venue for me to further develop my interest. With the help of Dickinson staff, and Dickinson's thriving study-abroad programs, I can make Rabin's image of a peaceful Israel a reality.