Well, we had better all wake up and smell the coffee. Teaching people to core about our human past broadens the range of interest and increases our chances of informing, educating and converting our extremely varied modern audience to the cause of heritage conservation. Cultural resource management means saving everyone's past for the sake of future generations. They will be heirs to the richness of its cultural heritage from the very time of their birth. There are many, compelling reasons for encouraging heritage awareness and involvement on the part of our multicultural audiences today, not least amongst which is that they pay taxes.
Most archaeology is paid for out of the public purse one way or another.
Our population base is changing at on incredible rate, and with it the variety of values and mores that characterise the city's culture. We have had to find alternative ways to make archaeology seem attractive and appealing and important in this new and highly politicised milieu. The financial resources for quality of life pursuits just aren't available today. The solution that archaeology has found for this serious and persistent problem is clearly education. So that the whole community becomes our partner in preserving the immensely rich and vulnerable legacy from the past.