Three Cups of Tea

So I went to see David Olver Relin's, the author of Three Cups of Tea and it was very interesting. I like when he talked about himself and his views alot more than when he discussed the book. He started off talking about what he used to do in his former career. He discussed how he used to interview famous people. Relin seemed to be very dissapointed with how American's are so consumed with famous people and how the famous people are not very interesting. This led to Relin making his statement of how the people with the least offer the most. Then that led to him going over the book briefly and how the plot of the book involves the main character, Greg Mortenson and his journey to the top of K2. Well Mortenson got lost and ended up in a village. In that village he became concerned with the residents becoming educated. He thought of ways to help that region get a proper education. Relin ties this idea of education to the recent dilemma of terrorism. He claims that the way to end terrorism is to educate. I have a hard time believing that education would solve all problems though. There will still be terrorists and people who hate America. I think he has a good idea but maybe he himself is too much of an extremist when it comes to his ideology.