In my new piece in Forbes.com on global citizenship education, I emphasize the need to not only celebrate our nation’s independence on July 4, but to consider the interdependence that underlies our prosperity and the ideas of global citizenship necessary for us as a human family to solve the problems of the world.

My Global Citizenship education piece explores the meaning of global citizenship and cosmopolitanism, based on ideas from Greece and Rome, the African concept of ubuntu, and in the Buddhist ideas of compassion and interconnectedness. Global Citizenship education is urgently needed to solve global problems, and the piece provides examples of global citizenship efforts at Soka University of America, Haverford College, Duke University, Webster University, Stanford University, and other leading US institutions. Let’s use our Independence Day to not only celebrate our nation’s independence, but also its interdependence on the other nations and cultures of the world.