Personal income is important but so is creating a society that recognizes the intrinsic importance of a person who fifty years ago would have been relegated to mopping floors. These are urgent issues. We cannot ignore them. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now . In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as too late.
Procrastination is still the thief of time.
Life often leaves us standing bare naked and dejected at lost opportunities. . . . The tides in the affairs of men do not remain at the flood, they ebb. We still have a choice today and it well could be mankind s last chance to choose between chaos or community. We must choose community. I believe that within a liberal education are the foundations that hold our communities in place, the glue that holds our identities together, a pathway to maintaining and passing on our sense of community.