There are not too many weeks hence until colleges and universities will throw open their portals. It will be satisfying to observe the various campuses bustling with anxious students, having one motive in mind – preparing to mold their life’s destiny. In the light thereof, it is well that the young folks know that there is a multiplicity of doors of opportunities, closed for our forefathers, that has swung wide for them.
They will be trained by a superior system of education, embodying the adoption of the best from Greek, Roman, and other systems to produce symmetrically manhood and womanhood. There is no other country that offers such quality of learning as our own America. We are all fortunate to live in this country that is so large that each can find climate, work and society suited to our own nature and taste.
And where mighty forces are at work for the uplifting of humanity. What we need in these crisis days are ideal men and ideal women to construct ideal societies and ideal lives, a generation to accomplish a Good so great, that only time and eternity can measure it. It is altogether fitting and proper that we uphold our young people by our prayers.
The Words of Prior Generations
It took me some time to find what I wanted this section on higher education to be about. I met up at the University of Washington Campus to talk with students to be one way to help me find direction.
Over the Summer they had a UI interface conference that might have given me more direction to this line of work specifically. I ended up not going. I already had many plans for UI design. Too bad the conference is only once a year.
It felt like it made the most sense for me to fill in these writings that my great grandfather wrote before I was born. It gives me a chance to zoom out and see the higher perspective. One that is above the time that I am living in and allows me to survey how these thoughts may have shifted over time. Is it for better or worse?
