We take for granted that education makes us better people, but Jane Goodall’s essay, “Learning from the Chimpanzees: A Message Humans Can Understand” illustrates how her lack of education was a significant factor in her more respectful approach to the study and treatment of the animals she has worked with for her whole career. She writes, “As I had not had an undergraduate science education, I did not realise that animals were not supposed to have personalities, or to think, or to feel emotions or pain. I had no idea that it would have been more appropriate—once I got to know him or her—to…