Becoming Educated
I am reading Elder Richard G. Scott’s new book. I’m really liking it. I wanted to share a quote with you from it.
- Elder Henry B. Eyring learned a valuable lesson from his father, Henry Eyring, that has served him well. That father is honored as a world-renowned scientist and educator whose brilliance left a heritage of fundamental scientific principles that remain prized today.
At the time Elder Eyring was at a pinnacle of formal education, having received his master’s and doctor’s degrees from Harvard. He was serving as a professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and as a Visiting Sloan Faculty Fellow at MIT. His perceptive father said, “Hal, you have a problem. You are confused. You think education is where you have been. It is not. It is not what you do, not where you go to do it. You can get an education anywhere if you work hard enough at it. You can go into the desert with a good book and blackboard and with diligent work, you can become educated.”
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