Concluding Thoughts
Lastly, one central goal of ethnic studies is for all people to be strong: as Professor Takaki says, for people to be whole in body, mind, and heart so that they come to want that same wholeness for everyone in America.
In the end, one way of grasping the impact of these new ethnic studies programs of the 1970s and of all the other new ways to learn is to think about how your own educational options today are the result of these student protestors' struggles to be heard. Even the fact that we have an innovative curriculum like SYRCE is due in part to the bottom-up struggle for educational freedom and self-determination.