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...Unless [idealism] is really anchored to empiricism...it doesn’t really make great policy,” said Kristof, who had earlier used the Iraq war as an example of a “mistake” made because of a lack of people “who really understood the world at a grassroots level...
...illustrate the gap between textbook and empirical knowledge, the nasal-toned Kristof recalled a move he made to China to serve as a Beijing bureau chief. Though he had mostly mastered the local language in advance, Kristof said, he still managed to mistake his home’s doorbell—which, in Chinese characters, was labeled “electronic sound-carrying device”—for espionage equipment planted by the Chinese government...
...incident, Kristof said, was a reminder that education is an “essential preparation for life in the real world, but education continues thereafter...
...come to see your own life and neighborhood in very different ways when you have engaged with other problems around the world,” Kristof added...
...Kristof wished such a change in perspective upon the members of his audience, drawing his final applause—a standing ovation—after stating that “out there you are going to acquire that wisdom and that empathy and that compassion, that I hope one day will make you fall apart at the sight of a birdfeeder...