This morning I listened to the BYU Devotional speech that Thomas Fletcher gave this month. He quoted the following from a speech "Preparation for Tomorrow" given by Bishop Victor L. Brown on October 2, 1982:
At whatever level our children complete their formal schooling, they should have learned how important excellence is in all they do. There is always room at the top in any enterprise, and it is always crowded at the bottom. It doesn’t matter what the field of endeavor—plumber, doctor, teacher, lawyer, farmer, carpenter, whatever—if our children learn early in their lives that they should do their very best, they will be eminently better prepared for the responsibilities of life.
At whatever level our children complete their formal schooling, they should have learned how important excellence is in all they do. There is always room at the top in any enterprise, and it is always crowded at the bottom. It doesn’t matter what the field of endeavor—plumber, doctor, teacher, lawyer, farmer, carpenter, whatever—if our children learn early in their lives that they should do their very best, they will be eminently better prepared for the responsibilities of life.
We should teach our children the importance of schooling as a help in discovering how to think and to learn. They need to know, and we need to be reminded, that schooling is merely the formal part of education. Education should never stop, but should be a continuing activity throughout life.
I really like this quote and feel it is something we want to teach our Esperanza scholars through our example of what we do and say. This may require:
I really like this quote and feel it is something we want to teach our Esperanza scholars through our example of what we do and say. This may require:
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