Michel Fortin: If you look at the laws and rules and all that won­der­ful stuff, they do exist for a pur­pose. And I under­stand that. But I also believe in edu­ca­tion because the more you edu­cate peo­ple the more you will change the world rather than forc­ing it to change. So, if you’re going to help out some­body in their own lives you need edu­ca­tion. If you’re going to help out peo­ple to real­ize maybe they are bad peo­ple and they’ve done hurt to oth­ers edu­ca­tion is the answer.

It’s not pros­e­ly­tiz­ing. It’s not try­ing to argue with them. It’s just teach­ing them and teach­ing them until they’re ready to be taught and they’re ready to change. I’ve met a lot of peo­ple who change their lives because they’ve learned and they’ve decided to learn and that’s the key. Edu­ca­tion is prob­a­bly the most pro­found answer I can give to that ques­tion. It’s just education.

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“Try not to become a man of suc­cess, but to become a man of value.“
– Albert Ein­stein (1879–1955)

“When your val­ues are clear to you, mak­ing deci­sions becomes eas­ier.“
– Roy Disney

Peo­ple say “change your atti­tudes” or “have a pos­i­tive atti­tude,” but I don’t agree since atti­tudes can not be changed. They are results and not causes. They are byprod­ucts of your inner­most con­vic­tions. They are reflec­tions of your deep­est val­ues. You can’t just change them on a whim because your out­side is but a mir­ror reflec­tion of your inside.

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