FROM THE EDITORS June 11, 2007 Issue

TEACHABLE, CURABLE, AND CURATIVE

"BE A LIFE-LONG LEARNER" has become a key phrase for everyone from management coaches, to retirement advisors, to consultants in fields such as communications technology and healthcare, where the pace of change and quantities of new information can boggle even the best and brightest.

While the term "perpetual student" once described those who seemed to nest permanently on the fringes of academia, it can now apply to those thinkers and doers who, with or without college degrees, are leading the charge for innovation and recharted life paths. And many are taking their desire for life-long learning one step higher, by practicing life-long giving—in which everything they learn and do must in some way improve others' lives.

We applaud any lifting of limitaion on humanity's progress. And we hear a distinct and healthful message in this emphasis on learning: No stagnation allowed. Truly, there is no space for stagnation in the life that the divine Life manifests in each of us. As Mary Baker Eddy put it, "We are all capable of more than we do" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 89). Mrs. Eddy practiced what she preached, launching a weekly magazine, the one you're reading, in 1898, at the age of 77. And in her eighth decade, she continued to respond to the human family's deepest needs with innovations and an overriding desire to bring healing and betterment.

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