"The services will continue to hold with the idea that strong nationhood comes not of the making of gadgets but of the building of character.." -- The Armed Forces Officer, U.S. Department of Defense (1950)
Just as strong nations are primarily built upon producing people of precious character rather than producing gadgets of precious value, families and churches are built on the character of their members, not the amount of output of their operations.
The aim of education is not merely the transfer of information, but the grandeur of transformation. Education is primarily a matter of character development, not intellectual achievement. The end of education is not the amount of information we can organize into someone else's head. The wins are not measured in megabytes per square inch minted on the minds of our future employees. The wins are measured in character per square inch impressed upon the hearts of our children. Our descendants are not currency, they are stewards.
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