International education brings the ideas of many to one place of learning. These ideas express different views of different topics. Being exposed to different views and ideas help us learn the subject matter more effectively. This is primarily because when we are surrounded by people who are from the same place that we are, the majority will think the same things that we do, and if we all think the same thing from the start, how will our minds ever expand? I don't believe they will. We need to be exposed to the views and opinions of other people in order for us to understand better what we learn, because these different views allow us to question, and the more we question, the more answers we get, and the more answers we get, the greater our knowledge builds. If we were to sit and listen to opinions we already had on a certain topic, we would never question why we believed what we believe. .
One problem that many people today face is the lack of tolerance. In international education, many nations, with many cultures and ideas, are brought together in one environment to learn. Education deals with interaction, and when students of different nationalities and different cultures interact, ideas are shared and new ideas are created. To be able to effectively learn, we must interact with others in the learning environment cooperatively. This cooperative interaction builds tolerance of other people's ideas and cultures. Tolerance is needed as we leave our learning environment and enter our working environment. For example, many times in class we are asked to work on certain projects in groups of two or more. Often we are not able to choose our fellow group members ourselves, but are assigned group members. In one of my group projects I had one Korean, one Ghanaian, one Lebanese and me, an American. I can assure you that each of us had different ideas on how to go about getting the project done.
