Drive born of passion in matters of public policy is a positive attribute of good citizenship.
One can hardly play an effective role in the political arena without the power of passion to spark interest and drive action. But a passionate individual is most likely to engender positive public result when that passion is well grounded in fact, science, and a sense of history and culture. Environmental education as explained nicely in Closing the Achievement Gap , one of the resource publications provided to committee members, can serve as an integrating theme on which to build a good general education. One uses interest in and concern about environmental matters as a starting point to design educational approaches. There is a problem in many universities.