The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.

Education: Is It A Priority?

by: Dessa Rodeffer, Publisher/Owner

27 March 2002

Have you ever thought of the people who have influenced your life in a positive way.. who have influenced others in a positive way?

The stories we are publishing of area graduates who have become doctors, tell how someone before them was responsible for influencing them, for educating them, for providing them a way to gain their doctorate through a great education.

This helps them, but more importantly, it enables them to help better the world.

Children are always looking for a role model, a leader, someone who will help them find their way through this very busy, diversified world.

Everyone seems too busy, and life, compared to what it was years ago, has gotten on a fast track, and at the same time, always looking for a Sam's Club bargain.

When it comes to forming young minds to think of their possibilities, and educating leaders rather than drifters in this twenty-first century, there are no bargains that we can get at a drive-thru and then be done with it.

Our up-to-date generation, use to the quickest and most current ways of doing things, will find that some things are better done the old fashion way - and that is by a little one-on-one caring.

It may mean turning off the TV, sitting around the table talking to the family, forgetting the Nascar races, missing a big college game, or a Martha Stewart special, to attend a Pinewood Derby, an American Pride Lock-in, a public school board meeting, or to promote consolidation if it will gain a better education and better curriculum for our children.

Education, is it a priority? You're someone's role model - be a good one.