<p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(86, 83, 76); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(86, 83, 76);">Cultural education consists of the capacity for reflection. Children and also youngsters in cultural education learn to reflect upon their own culture, culture of others and culture in general.<p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Light&quot;; color: rgb(86, 83, 76); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(86, 83, 76); min-height: 22px;"> <p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(86, 83, 76); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(86, 83, 76);">And this capacity for reflection is in principle trained in many different forms: it can be through journalism for instance or through history but also through the arts. I think the arts are one of the main forms of self-consciousness, cultural self-consciousness but also philosophy, science and also lessons for example in citizenship.

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<p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(86, 83, 76); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(86, 83, 76);">All these forms of reflection together form what cultural education is and that also explains immediately why it is so difficult because of course cultural self-consciousness within Europe is incredibly diverse.<p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Light&quot;; color: rgb(86, 83, 76); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(86, 83, 76); min-height: 22px;"> <p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(86, 83, 76); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(86, 83, 76);">Teaching this to children is very important because it helps them to grow up and to function in a culture which has not one clear identity ready for them.

We are reminded that we’re joined together by our pursuit of a life that’s productive and purposeful, and when that happens mistrust begins to fade and our smaller differences no longer overshadow the things that we share. And that’s where progress begins.                       — United States President, Barack Obama