What you bring is not only the benefits of this study, but the values that will transform this new world order that lay before us all. The values of service learning embodied on this campus are the values that technology cannot provide, that high speed communication cannot send, and that travel will not disseminate. You see, the changes brought by our society are valueless in themselves. So the real pioneers of the future will not be just technocrats who know how to invent a better computer, but committed servants who understand the foundations for moral living and faith for the development of whole people. McSwain added that the pioneer spirit the graduates should strive for includes a willingness to take risks.
All pioneers are adventurers.
They are different from those of us who are willing to accept things the way they are. You may never become astronauts nor Nobel Prize winners. You may not even leave the communities of which you are a part. But you can assume the stance of being a pioneer for a higher calling than the status quo. Pioneers of the future will be housewives who decide to make a difference in the quality of education in schools their children attend.