Quotes from Andrew Carnegie.

A few months ago I read "The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie", and my dad suggested that I write down some of my favorite quotes from the book. I thought it might be a good idea to post them on this blog.

• A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it is cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine. Laugh trouble away if possible, and one usually can if he be anything of a philosopher.
• You can choose to be happy; provided that self-reproach comes not come from your own wrong doing. That always remains. Hence the grand rule of life which Burns gives: “Thine own reproach alone do fear.”
• I have not attributed my success to what I have known or done myself, but to the faculty of knowing and choosing others who did know better than me.
• I tried to understand the more complicated piece of machinery: Man.
• A hero can be a strong guide if you ask yourself the question; what would he or she have done in this situation?
• A word, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle. The young should remember that upon trifles the best gifts of God often hang.
• “He asked me how soon I could come, and I said that I would come now if wanted.” And, looking back over the circumstance, I think that answer might well be pondered by young people.
• It is a great mistake not to seize the opportunity.
• Wise men are always looking out for clever boys.
• The fundamental advantage of a library is that it gives nothing for nothing. Youth must acquire knowledge themselves. There is no escape from this. 
• Whenever one learns to do anything he has never to wait long for an opportunity of putting his knowledge to use.
• Knowledge is sure to prove useful in one way or another.
• A few rules for speaking are: 1. Make yourself perfectly at home before your audience.2. Simply talk to them, not at them; never orate until you can’t help it.3. Just say what you feel like saying.4. Be yourself. It is trying to be other than one’s self that unmans one.5. Remember that your audience are people.
• I have never believed in being too hard on a young man, even if he does commit a dreadful mistake or two.
• Our experience was that young women were more to be relied upon than young men.
• If it came out all right, it was all right; if it came out all wrong, the responsibility was mine.
• The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought personally in contact with high officials.
• The great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties – something which attracts the attention of those over him.
• I felt I had gone too far, but having taken the step, I informed him of what I had done. I hid nothing.
• Light and certain punishment, when necessary, is most effective.
• It was only the truth that could make us free, and the truth, the whole truth, we should pursue.
• An investment: it gave me the first penny of revenue from capital – something I had not worked for with the sweat of my brow. “Eureka! Here is the goose that lays the golden eggs.”
• Even in my teens I was a scribbler for the press.
• The pen was getting to be a weapon with me.
• Our air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but by then they have lost their charm.
• Men at first argued about the constitutional rights. It made all the difference in the world when the flag was fired upon.
• Slight attention or a kind word to the humble often brings back rewards as great as it is unlooked for. No kind word is ever lost.
• His manners were perfect because they were natural. His attentions were not graduated; they were the same for all.
• If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us.
• I all our dealing we only used the best material and enough of it.
• We were our severest inspectors, and would build a safe structure or none at all.
• Instead of objecting to inspectors they should be welcomed to all establishments.
• A high standard of excellence is easily maintained, and men are educated in the effort to reach excellence.
• The surest foundation of a company is quality.
• If you want a contract, be on the spot when it is let. An opportunity might show.
• And if possible stay on hand until you can take the written and signed contract home in your pocket.
• Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
• I insisted upon such a system of accounting being introduced throughout our work, so that we would know what our costs where for every process and especially what each man was doing, who saved time and money, who wasted it, and who produced the best results. This is a key principle to having success in manufacturing.
• A man must necessarily occupy a narrow field who is at the beck and call of others. Even if he becomes president of a great corporation he is hardly his own master, unless he holds control of the stocks. The ablest presidents are hampered by the boards of directors and shareholders, who can know but little of the business.
• Those who can create something out of nothing have great cause of self-congratulation.
• Whatever I engage in I must push inordinately; therefore should I be careful to choose that life which will be the most elevating in its character.
• I have adhered to the rule never to purchase what I did not pay for, and never to sell what I did not own.
• Most troubles of humanity are imaginary and should be laughed out of court. It is folly to cross a bridge until you come to it. All is well till the stroke falls, and even then it is often less than anticipated. A wise man is the confirmed optimist.
• Many men can be trusted but a few need watching.
• It is essential to permanent success that a house should obtain a reputation for being governed by what is fair rather than what is merely legal.
• I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.
• I have no faith in the policy of scattering one’s resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved pre-eminence in moneymaking who was interested in many concerns.
• The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
• There is no way of making a business successful than can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
• My experience has been that no partnership of new men gathered promiscuously from various fields can prove a good working organisation as at first constituted. Changes are required. 
• Upon no account could two men be in the same works with equal authority.
• An army with two commanders-in-chiefs, a ship with two captains, could not fare more disastrously than a company with two men in command upon the same ground, even though in two different departments. 
• When I wrote, I wrote for my friends.
• What one does easily one does well. 
• One vital lesson I learned was the necessity of owning raw materials and finishing the completed article ready for its purpose. It would not do to depend on others for anything essential to the company. 
• Here lies the advantage of a partnership over a corporation. The president of the latter would have had to consult a board of directors and wait several weeks and perhaps months for their decision. 
• We trod on sure grounds with our experts at as our guides.
• The main root of trouble is ignorance, not hostility.
• Anything can be done with men who have this feeling of loyalty with them. They only need to be treated fairly.
• By not opposing them directly, and instead using a counter stroke, I was able to get what I wanted while not leaving them an excuse to oppose me.
• “I resolved to stop accumulating and began the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”
• Money is a very powerful tool; and as most tools it can be used for good purposes or for bad purposes. The more money you have, the greater the effect of what you do.
• A man may have all the good intentions in the world but if he does not know how to use the tools he has he will end up doing more bad than good. A powerful fool with good intentions can be worse than a weak but cunning man with bad ones.
• Using money is easy; using it wisely is what is hard.
• After I chose what to do, God sent me opportunities to do so.
• True heroes think not of reward. They are inspired and think only of their fellows endangered; never of themselves.
• “What good am I doing in this world to deserve all these mercies?”
• We only hate those whom we do not know.
• There are times in most men’s lives that test whether they are dross or pure gold. It is the decision made in the crisis which proves the man.
• He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Quinton Peck "On Sports"

By +Quinton Peck

Each year, on the first Sunday in February, tens of millions of people either tune in to or, if you’re lucky, attend in person, what some have called “America’s de facto holiday” and “the greatest sporting event in American history:” The Superbowl. All over the nation, parties are held; bars and public places are filled beyond capacity with raving fans, and everywhere the excitement is comparable to that of a child on Christmas morning. During the course of the over four hour game, the nation pauses to see which team will be crowned champion. For weeks leading up to this big event, fans and national media alike make predictions, analyze teams and players, and participate in heated debates over a single game. This is the Christmas morning of Football. One may be led to think that this is an annual occurrence. But it’s not just one game, or even one sport. In America this sports fever is constant. Just as one major sport is ending, another is ready to begin. But sports fanaticism is not inherent to just the United States. While it is quite visible in America, sports fanaticism and its effects can be seen all over the world. Perhaps the most vivid international example is the World Cup. In European and South American countries especially, it is not uncommon to see shops closed and streets vacant during a tournament game. Fans will don their team colors, sometimes going so far as to paint their face, even when watching the game at home. At the stadium, security is doubled and sometimes even tripled so as to prevent the unruly fans from causing any serious damage. During a heated match, it is common for decibel levels in the stadium to reach dangerous heights, and the noise can be heard for miles around. While the two events I have mentioned are both tournaments: the Superbowl for professional Football in America, and the World Cup for professional Soccer internationally, I do not wish the reader to think that this kind of athletic fervor only occurs during a tournament or championship game. For many, this is a weekly and sometimes even semi-weekly ritual. But this is not a modern occurrence. Since the beginning of recorded history, there have always been sporting events of a sort. As far back as approximately 17,300 years ago, there are cave drawings depicting swimmers and wrestling matches. By 2000 BC, athletic events such as weightlifting, rowing, long jump and other similar events were popular and well regulated in Egypt. In ancient eastern civilizations, martial arts date back to 1000 BC. But it was on the island of Greece that sporting events really formed a culture of their own. The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC and only included one footrace. But by 393 AD, when the last ancient Olympiad was held, this iconic sporting event had grown to include approximately 15 different events, there was a stadium dedicated to the purpose of sporting events, and there was even a god of athletes and athletics. Later, during the middle ages, tournaments were frequently held for the knights to exhibit their combat skills, with the prize for the victor sometimes being as great as a royal marriage. It was not until the mid-1600’s that there began to be organized team sports. Originally, team sports were only for the aristocracies. But as Alexis de Tocueville says in his book, Democracy in America, the equalization of conditions which comes as democracy advances tends to give the common man more leisure time. It is then only logical to assume that as public leisure time grows, so do sports. The progress of equality has changed the face of sports and their purpose. Originally, athletes participated in sporting events as a sort of “off-duty” military training. Ancient sports were designed to train a better soldier. In the Olympiad of old, one of the major events was a running race where participants had to run in a full suit of armor. It was not until the industrial revolution that the common man even considered actively participating in different sporting events to fill his leisure time. As with many other activities, athletics have created a mindset all their own. American sports culture has bred two different and contradictory paradigms, depending on what level the sport is being played at. The first paradigm is what I like to call “the Pee-Wee league” or recreation mentality. This is the mentality which says that “everyone should play, everyone should win.” One of the many examples of how this paradigm affects our society is in the reward system. Public soccer leagues are a case in point. In a public soccer league, especially at the younger ages, trophies or other prizes are given to each player at the end of the season, regardless of the team’s win/loss record. I cannot help but view this action with disapproval, for it Defeats the purpose of a trophy or prize. During the ancient sporting events, the victor would receive a laurel wreath as a symbol of his victory. The trophy was a sign of greatness and personal achievement. The man who wore the wreath was looked upon as the “king” of his sport. This is no longer the case. The Pee-Wee league mentality has, in the name of equality, actually created a competition where it is impossible to win, and the trophy becomes meaningless. Another effect the Pee-Wee league mentality has had on modern society is that it is now commonly believed that each person, regardless of preexisting qualifications and opportunities, is entitled to “equal playing time,” or the same things. All over the world, nations have implemented different welfare and entitlement programs in the name of “equality of conditions.” When Tocueville talks about equalizing conditions, he is referring to the social state that occurs under a democratic government. In this state, men are constantly driven to acquire wealth for themselves, and the more wealth that is acquired, the more equal conditions tend to become. But Tocueville made it abundantly clear that there would always be some who were richer than others, and that this was as it should be. Nowhere does Tocueville say that it is the role of good government to ensure and provide sameness. He says that government should only protect equality. While these two words are similar in meaning, they are not congruent. The basis of their difference is that equality is based on the rights of man, and that we are all equal in the sight of god, while sameness is materialist at its heart. Equality is the practice of allowing anyone to try out for the team. Sameness is making sure everyone gets to play on a team. On the flipside of the Pee-Wee mentality is what Stephen Covey called the “win/lose” and “Win” mentalities. The win/lose mentality is pretty self-explanatory. This mentality says that “I’m the winner; you’re the loser, end of story.” The win mentality is just as competitive, but ends in a slightly different result. When someone has the win mentality, the fact that someone else is losing becomes less important, what matters is that you win. While the win/ lose mentality is the more confrontational view, the win mentality is the more inherently selfish. With the first, one can fight for a cause or country, but with the second, no such thing is possible because it’s all about what you want. These are the two contradictory paradigms of sports: the one in which by making sure everyone wins, there isn’t a real winner, the other which is all about winning. I found the following quote in a New York Times article. “At youth sporting events, the sidelines have become the ritual community meeting place, where families sit in rows of folding chairs aligned like church pews. These congregations are diverse in spirit but unified by one gospel: heaven is your child receiving a college athletic scholarship.” This author said sports fans can be compared to a religious body, worshiping the college scholarship. Was he being overly dramatic, or is there a “religious” aspect to sports culture? I mentioned the Superbowl earlier. Every year this game, which draws as many viewers annually as the presidential elections do every four years, falls on a Sunday. Some have called professional football “the church of the NFL” because so many of their games fall on the Sabbath. Another possibly religious aspect of sports is the admiration of the athletes. If one was to attend a modern American high school, they would find that some of the most popular people at the school are the athletes, or ‘jocks’ as they are sometimes called. People constantly flock around these athletes, as if hoping some of their glory will rub off on them. On the college level, athletes are offered full-ride scholarships if they promise to play for a school. Since the number of athletic scholarships which are awarded each year is quite small, those who get them are viewed as the elite of their sport. At the professional level, the athletes are paid astronomical sums of money for playing a game. The college and professional athletes in America are commonly held up as role models for all to see. If a young athlete is asked what they want to be when they grow up, perhaps the most common answer given is “a pro.” In America, are sports, with their worship of athletic heroes, events on Sunday and “congregations hoping for a college scholarship” replacing our traditional religious worship? It is hard to tell. To conclude, I wish to look to the future. Not only the future of sports, but to the future of society as well. The global movement towards democracy has changed the face of sports. Democratic ideals such as equality and generalization have changed what was once a very individual-focused field into a field dominated by team events. These ideals have also reformed the way American society views personal opportunity. I feel that the heavy emphasis on ‘the team’ brought about by the advance of equal conditions has led men and women all over the country to forget about improving themselves, and instead focus their attention on improving society. While the betterment of society is a noble cause, if the cost is the neglect of improving oneself, is it really worth it? And the focus on ‘the win,’ brought about by sport’s competitive nature, leads these same men and women to concentrate only on themselves and their private victory. The bible states that ‘A housed divided cannot stand.’ The two effects which sports have had on our democracy contradict one another, tending to divide our once united people. I ask, “will we stand?”

A Heart at Peace and Success

By Patrick van Duyse,

   In "The Anatomy of Peace" the Arbinger institute implies two ways of being in the world towards a person; either we see him as an object/obstacle/tool, or we see him as an equal person. They described this as having a heart at peace (person) or a heart at war (object) towards someone. In this paper I will give three obvious points and will try to derive from each point why having a heart at peace and seeing others as people is essential to having success.

1.      Success is hard if you can't evaluate a situation clearly.

2.      Success is hard if people don't trust you.

3.      Success is hard if you are promoting what you don’t want.

   I will now dive into the first one of these:

1. Success is hard if you can't evaluate a situation clearly.

"People whose hearts are at war towards each others can't consider others' objections and challenges enough to be able to find a way through them." (The Anatomy of Peace)

   If you are arguing or negotiating with someone and you think of him as a tool or obstacle, will you be able to consider his point of view? Now, have you ever argued with someone who thinks he is wrong? I know that for me I haven’t. So if both of you  think you are right, neither of you are willing to consider the other side’s point of view and both your hearts are at war with each other, it might gets very similar to how The Anatomy of Peace described a similar situation:

"When they spoke, it was a kind of verbal wrestling match, each of them trying to anticipate the other's moves; searching for weaknesses they could then exploit to force the other into submission. With no actual mat into which to press the others flesh, these verbal matches always ended in a draw: each of them clamed hollow victory while living with ongoing defeat." 

   They describe going from a heart at peace to a heart at war as a self-betrayal; you get a feeling that you should do something, and then you betray it by not doing it. Because you didn’t do what you felt you should have done you feel the need to justify yourself. For me, my most common way of justifying myself is by blaming or diminishing my “opponent” into an object or by painting him as “bad” or “not as good as me”. So after I justified myself my view of the world became distorted and wrong. The very way I thought of others became a falsehood.

   If your view of the world is distorted and you can’t consider others’ point of view, can you evaluate a situation clearly? Can you make a good choice, or deal a good negotiation? Will you be successful? I know that for me, the answer to those questions are no.

2. Success is hard if people don’t trust you.

   Stephen M.R. Covey wrote in his book “The Speed of Trust” of 4 necessary cores to having people trust you: Integrity, Intent, Capability, and Experience. I will try to expound on the precept of Intent. The way I interpreted his meaning of intent was that, if people think you have a hidden agenda or motive, they will not trust you. He said something similar to this:

“If people don’t think you care about them, their feelings, their problems, and their difficulties then, they will not like you and they will probably not trust you either.”

   Does this remind you of anything? I know it made me think of hearts at war and hearts at peace. Think about it. Now tell me, could you really, genuinely care about someone, and still have a heart at war towards that person? Would it be genuine? Or would it be just an act? I think that if you really care about someone it means that you think of him as a person.

   If someone was treating me like an object, and didn’t care how his actions affected me, do you think I would trust him? Do you think I would want to interact with him? To put it logically, if you see someone as an object, then you won’t care about that person, and if you don’t care about him then he will generally tend to not trust you and to not like you. Now you might be thinking, why is the fact that others trust me so important to my success?

   Here I will introduce another principle from “The Speed of Trust”; the trust tax. The trust tax is really the cost of mistrust; it is often composed of lost time and lost money. An example that Stephen uses is airports. It is easy to see which airport is more trusting by comparing the security areas in the different airports. Less trust leads to longer security; this is obvious. Now we can say that the trust tax for airports with less trust is of lost time from passengers and lost money from the airport. This is only one example of many found in “The Speed of Trust”. It is easy to see, and it applies to almost all situations.

   I will wrap up this section with a few questions: If your heart is at war with someone will he trust you? Would it be easy for you be successful if people didn’t want to interact with you? What if those who did interact with you just didn’t trust you? I would say the answers to these questions are also a resounding no.

3. Success is hard if you are promoting what you don’t want.

  Now you may be thinking, how is having a heart at war related to promoting things that we don’t want?

Well look at it this way, if I am arguing with someone, and both our hearts are at war, would I be inviting him to agree with me? No. Chances are that I would be doing the opposite; who would want to agree with a guy who doesn’t care what you think. As I wrote earlier during this argument I would probably be being blind to my opponent’s point of view.

   Now if we go from an argument to a negotiation we can see that this would probably also apply in this type of a situation. If the other party sees that I have no consideration for them and that my only goal in this negotiation is to get as much as I can out of the deal, then they will probably not want to cooperate, and I will probably have to fight through every step of the deal. But if instead my heart was at peace towards the other party, they would recognise this and the deal may end up being better for both sides of the deal.

   The same applies to the argument situation again. If I had a heart at peace I would be open to learn and to see how he might be right. It would be hard for my friend to have any hard feelings towards me, and as long as I didn’t take a stance that is completely opposite to his he would probably become open too. In having a heart at war I was provoking him, and most people would fight back in such a situation. This probably helps you understand why we call them hearts at war or hearts at peace, since one invites quarrels the other invites peaceful agreements. I think that two people can have completely different opinions, but as long as they both keep their hearts at peace, and their minds open, the discussion can always stay on friendly terms, and who knows they might learn something new. So to recapitulate: If I have a heart a war towards someone I am inviting him to fight back at me and to hamper my progress. No one wants to agree with a jerk. So one last time, if my heart is at war, will I be successful?

   I have done my best to prove that treating others as people is important if not essential too having success in your personal life as much as in your business life. I would like to conclude by inviting you all to apply this as you see fit and to wish you luck on your trip on the road of life.

   If you would like some more information on having a heart at peace please read “The Anatomy of Peace” and “Leadership and Self-deception” both by the Arbinger Institute. If you want to know more on the importance of trust then I invite you to read “The Speed of Trust” by Stephen M.R. Covey. Thank you.

A fellow student,

Patrick van Duyse.

The Battle of the Teen

by +Quinton Peck ,

Our nation, and indeed the world, is under attack. Not only physically, through terrorist organizations, hostile nations and the like, but we are also under attack morally and politically. Battles rage around us, and each is fought with it’s own distinct weapons. But the greatest battle isn't being fought in some distant land, with guns or law books, but is being fought here on the home front with ideas. In fact, this battle is being fought overran idea, the idea of “the teenager.”

On the surface, the idea of the teenager may seem harmless, even natural. The growing up process is natural, inevitable and God-given. Becoming a teenager isn’t. Many people believe that the teenager has been around since the dawn of time, when in reality, the teenager wasn’t invented until after WW2. At this point, many people may may be wondering “if teenagers weren’t invented until WW2, what was there before?”

In his article “the Myth of the teenager,” Dr. Michael Platt, a professor of philosophy, said this: “there were no teenagers before WW2, instead there were youth. Youths were young people who wanted to become adults, no matter how confused,wayward, or silly they acted, they looked to the future. They were aware that life is more than youth."

Teenagers have no such horizon. Beyond the teenage world, there is no adult life, no past with heroes, no future with goals. beyond the world of "self", there is nothing.

The creation of the teenager was a sad day for young people everywhere. On this day, young people became "Peter Pans," human beings that never grow up.

In order to more clearly describe the teenager, we need to clearly establish what a youth is. A youth is someone striving to become a man or a woman. They want to be trusted and given responsibility. A youth likes good tests, and they want to enjoy adult pleasures, only after they have earned them.

I know that this all sounds surreal, and that it seems that a person like this could not physically exist in the real world. I'm here to tell you that they can, and they do!

The only reason that we don't see more youth than we do, is because a youth must possess 1 thing that society has deemed; "Crazy, wrong and destructive." this thing that all youth must possess is: vision. Youth know that in order to succeed in life, you must take the high road, and be willing to do some really hard things. there are two hard thing that especially apply to youth; conquering the comfort zone, and going against the crowd.

Two of these especially apply to youth: the comfort zone and going against the crowd.

The comfort zone is a mental place in which everything you do and every action that you make is easy, comfortable, low-risk and/or non-invasive. The comfort zone is generally caused by fear: fear of pain, fear of humiliation and fear of failure. Imagine the comfort zone as a nice little patch of grass, surrounded by a fence.  in this patch of grass, everything is comfortable and easy. a youth views the comfort zone as a challenge and as an opportunity to grow. The teenager, on the other hand, views the comfort zone as a restriction or even as a crutch. The reason the teenager has such a hard time with the comfort zone is because he is an animal of fear. Fear of responsibility, fear of solitude, fear of pain and the list could go on. But right now I'd like to focus on the fear of solitude and the other hard thing.

There are times in life when we are required to stand up for what we believe in. Let me share with you a story.

Helmuth Hubner lived in Germany during the reign of the Nazis. He was what you would call "The poster-boy Nazi." He was brilliant, strong and loved his country. Helmuth would have made an exceptional Nazi except for the fact that he was a Mormon. One of the key Latter-day-saint beliefs is that we should spread truth to all the world. Not just moral truth, but all truth. Helmuth did exactly that. When his older brother came home from battle, he smuggled in a foreign radio which could receive stations such as BBC England. After listening to foreign radio for a little while, Helmuth realized that the Nazis were spreading false information about the war, and that people should know the full truth. Long story short, he started spreading the truth, got arrested, and was put to death for standing up for what he believed.

Standing for something is a very lonely occupation. Teenagers do NOT stand because they fear solitude. I have heard it said that "solitude is the breeding grounds for wisdom." When you are alone, you ask the hard questions, the deep and soul-searching questions of: "Who am I? What have I done with my life and what should I be doing? A youth loves this time because it is during times of solitude when the greatest growth and change happens, it is in these times when he makes the biggest strides toward manhood. a teenager fears these times of solitude because he is afraid of wisdom. There is a quote that says; "With great power comes great responsibility." Wisdom is power, and since the greatest fear of the teenager is responsibility, a teenager will naturally shy away from wisdom.

Earlier in my speech, I brought up Dr. Michael Platt, and I would like to do so again. Dr. Platt calls the teenager "a myth," also, he says; "There has never been a being more dangerous than the teenager.

In Websters New World dictionary, the definition of a myth is; "any fictitious story, person, or thing." The teenager is a fake person, and as such, they pursue fake things. this is the reason that things like Facebook, online gaming, and internet dating are so appealing to teenagers. These things provide an easy escape from reality. they offer all of the pleasures of relationships, without any of the responsibility. the teenager fears reality because subconsciously, they know that if they have to face reality, then they would have to accept the fact that they aren't perfect, and that they need to change. The effects of this fear are the teenage actions, distancing themselves from their family, etc. The teen knows that he cannot face reality, but they also know that something must be real, so the teenager does something that up to this point in history, has never been done; they create their own reality.

The reason teens are so dangerous is because they have this fake reality. When a teenager comes to power, they don't know how to deal with what is true reality, and so instead , they try to force their skewed version on others. The teenager mentality is that work is bad, responsibility is evil, and life is all about you. When society excepts these ideas, that is the day when society will crumble. Benjamin Franklin said;"A moral people is necessary to the security of a free state."

But there is hope. Just as the story of Pandora's box, after all the demons were let loose and Pandora sat weeping, there came the little fairy called Hope. Lucky for us, the third generation of teenagers, who are now the parents of the world, have realized the emptiness of their material youth and have resolved to give their children something truly good; an education in the virtues. I would like to quote Dr. Platt once more. He says; "Nothing should make us more happy about our children and more confidant about our future public life, than the number of parents who have chosen to educate their children at home. In order to teach, you must know and in order to know, you must learn. Thus both generations grow up at once. The parents leave their own teen-age self behind and become true adults, and the children never have to become teenagers at all."

Quinton Peck