This is the principle that I picked up from that one experience. When you pick a crew to sail an ocean, you don't pick sailors and teach them to be good people. You pick good people and teach them to be sailors. Ford praised Augsburg's commitment to a liberal-arts education, saying that while colleges can teach students the skills to do their work, the crucial part of an education is learning the wisdom to make the right choices. We can use these skills to enhance the human spirit, or to degrade the human spirit.
Good people do good things.
They had the skills of their vocations, they developed their basic goodness. Here we not only learn the technical abilities and skills we need, but we try to focus on how to use those skills, for right or for wrong, for the betterment of people, the betterment of our nation and indeed, the world. Ford, a Minnesota native, is retiring as Chaplain of the House of Representatives this year. He was the first Chaplain to serve full-time in the House. As Chaplain, his duties include opening each legislative day with a prayer, coordinating the use of the Prayer Room, providing counseling and pastoral services to members and staff, and serving as guest speaker to religious groups.