Editorial March 16, 1987 Issue

An education for now and the future

Michael D. Rissler

Many people can spend the greater part of two decades receiving a formal education. That includes starting with the scissors-and-paste set and continuing through graduate school. It is a long road, but not an unusual one for millions of people today.

Education has become a very formal affair. It's associated with gigantic institutions, reams of paper work, piles of books to read, and the commonly shared anguish of examinations. Moms and dads learn from reading the daily newspaper that a college education can cost anywhere from twenty to sixty thousand dollars. Some parents even start building up a college fund before their children begin kindergarten.

In the middle of all those staggering images of what it takes to receive a formal education it's easy to lose sight of something as simple as a person sitting quietly at a desk or in an easy chair, book in hand, thinking about ideas that lie behind the words on a printed page. It stretches the imagination to come to grips with things as uncomplicated as an inquiring mind, a willing heart, and a desire to learn. Yet, it is these things that are basic to the spiritual character and ethical practice of truly Christian healers.

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