“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.”
Brigham Young
This simple quotation has been adopted, for the moment at least, as something of a motto for my college, the College of Humanities, here at Brigham Young University. (You can see it in abbreviated form here, on my College’s website: http://humanities.byu.edu.)
Yesterday, as I was waiting for somebody, I contemplated it on a poster:
Think Clearly * Act Well * Appreciate Life
And it occurred to me that it’s a pretty decent summary of the aims of a good education and of what ought to be the goals of a good and serious person. Really quite good indeed.
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