8.15.2012

what the world needs...

"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more "successful" people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it."

This was written by David Orr two decades ago in his article "What is Education For" but is still very much relevant at the present time. I pray that in the period of consumerism and social media, people get to realize that things that we really need...

Bow.