Educated!---Now What?

Each year we see the pouring forth from school doors millions of youth variously classified and labeled and certified as to their attainments and degrees of excellence in the great business of formal education. Any many questions are asked, as they always are at such times, one of the most important of which is asked by youth itself: “you say we are educated⎯now what?” And the answer is that we cannot predict the future with detailed and accurate certainty. That a given profession will continue to be in demand or that an established way of life will remain with us, cannot be foreseen. Swiftly moving events are breath0taking in the changes wrought by them. But no matter what lies before us, character, industry, faith, intelligence, loyalty, and determination will always be at high premium, and that time will never be found when the well-trained and honorable and willing young man or young woman will not be able to find a place or to make one, no matter how boundary lines are pushed around, no matter what changes occur. So much should be said to the young men and women upon whose shoulders the problems of the world will soon rest. “The future belongs to those who are best prepared for it.” And so, don’t drop out. Get back to school, to work, to useful use of time and to preparation for the future.