EDUCATION

The masses must move, but it must be the classes that move them.

—William Saunders Scarborough

Educator William Saunders Scarborough had fun with a little wordplay here. For “classes†read education, and you will get the point: With education, we have mobility onward and upward.

Education gives us wings. It has the power to expand our lives and to inspire us. Without it, we cannot compete, and we play into the hands of those who’d be quite content to have us drop out of the competition.

There are teachers for all of us, caring people who entered the profession because they wanted to help. We must search them out. And after our formal education, we must continue to learn if we are to continue to grow.

Call to Action: On this day, I will read the front page of the newspaper, read a magazine, or read a chapter from a book, or I will offer my knowledge to someone who might benefit from it.