I am teaching Relief Society this coming Sunday and the lesson is “We Believe in Being Honest” and focuses on integrity; consequently, that topic has been on my mind.  So when I read the following paragraph today, from Raising an Original, I just had to share it.  Julie Carr is describing her father’s education and she writes:  “My dad’s education helped fuel his dreams because his real learning began with his relatively uneducated but incredibly wise parents.  He was nurtured on integrity.  He saw modeled and was taught an incredible work ethic.  He was encouraged to dream big.  His greatest success was not that he trafficked in the galaxy (he came from sharecropper to rocket scientist) but that he did his work as a man of God – with honesty, excellence, creativity, and heart.  Those qualities that had been seeded and cultivated in him ultimately made his education effective.”  I am enjoying and learning from this book and I appreciate how much the author focuses on character building as a foundation for a good education. 

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.  Aristotle