Editing Pierre Trudeau (section)

== Education ==
Trudeau continued his full-time studies in law at the Université de Montréal while in the COTC from 1940 until his graduation in 1943. Following his graduation, he [[Articled clerk|articled]] for a year and, in late 1944, began his master's degree in [[political economy]] at [[Harvard University]]'s Graduate School of Public Administration (now the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]]). In his ''Memoir'', he admitted that it was at Harvard's "super-informed environment" that he realized the "historic importance" of the war and that he had "missed one of the major events of the century in which [he] was living.{{sfn|Trudeau (1993)|p=37}} Harvard had become a major intellectual centre, as fascism in Europe led to a great migration of intellectuals to the United States.{{sfn|English (2006)|p=124}}

Trudeau's Harvard dissertation was on the topic of communism and Christianity.{{sfn|English (2006)|pp=146}} At Harvard, an American and predominantly Protestant university, Trudeau, a French Canadian Catholic living outside the province of Quebec for the first time, felt like an outsider.{{sfn|English (2006)|p=134}} As his sense of isolation deepened,{{sfn|English (2006)|p=137}} he decided in 1947 to continue his work on his Harvard dissertation in [[Paris]],{{sfn|English (2006)|p=141}} where he studied at the [[Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris]] (Sciences Po). The Harvard dissertation remained unfinished when Trudeau briefly entered a doctoral program to study under the socialist economist [[Harold Laski]] at the [[London School of Economics]] (LSE).{{sfn|English (2006)|p=166}} This cemented Trudeau's belief that [[Keynesian economics]] and social sciences were essential to the creation of the "good life" in a democratic society.{{sfn|English (2006)|p=296}} Over a five-week period he attended many lectures and became a follower of [[personalism]] after being influenced most notably by [[Emmanuel Mounier]].{{sfn|English (2006)|p=147}} He also was influenced by [[Nikolai Berdyaev]], particularly his book ''Slavery and Freedom''.<ref name="NemniNemni2011" /> [[Max Nemni|Max]] and [[Monique Nemni]] argue that Berdyaev's book influenced Trudeau's rejection of nationalism and separatism.<ref name="NemniNemni2011">{{cite book |first1 = Max |last1=Nemni |first2 = Monique |last2=Nemni |title = Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944–1965 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fd-nSGK8c1QC&pg=PA70 |date =October 17, 2011 |publisher = McClelland & Stewart |isbn = 978-0-7710-5126-5 |pages = 70–72 }}</ref>

In mid 1948, Trudeau embarked on world travels to find a sense of purpose.{{sfn|English (2006)|p=176}} At the age of twenty-eight, he travelled to [[Poland]] where he visited [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]], then [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Austria]], [[Hungary]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], [[Bulgaria]], and the [[Middle East]], including [[Turkey]], [[Jordan]] and southern [[Iraq]].{{sfn|English (2006)|pp=176–179}} Although he was wealthy, Trudeau travelled with a backpack in "self-imposed hardship".<ref name="economist_obituary_20001005" /> He used his British passport instead of his Canadian passport in his travels through [[Pakistan]], [[India]], China, and [[Japan]], often wearing local clothing to blend in.{{sfn|English (2006)|pp=180–190}} According to ''The Economist'', when Trudeau returned to Canada in 1949 after an absence of five months, his mind was "seemingly broadened" from his studies at Harvard, Sciences Po, and the LSE, as well as his travels. He was "appalled at the narrow nationalism in his native French-speaking Quebec, and the authoritarianism of the province's government".<ref name="economist_obituary_20001005" />