Permit me to be a bit presumptuous. I think everyone would agree that education has a significant impact on one’s life. Wherever you are on the spectrum, from potting training to being a Rhodes scholar, your education, in large part, defines you, determines the scope of your life and plays a role in your successes and failures.
Despite having been a tenured student, most of my education was derived from elsewhere. Some was from experience. That could be a better source of education but it is affected to various degrees by where one lives, one’s family’s attitudes and beliefs, one’s financial resources, one’s opportunities and chance.
A resource of far greater potential is books. Books can take you to Disney World or to a homeless shelter or to the Moon. You can meet George Clooney, Rihanna or Socrates – or all of them. You don’t have to start at scratch and come up with E=mc2. Someone already did that for you.
Some may prefer a vicarious life as the replacement for James Bond or Hans Solo. No problem. You are not even limited by your own imagination. You can hitch a ride on the musings of many others.
With the advent of ebooks, whatever you want to read is now less expensive and more accessible.
Your education awaits. The rest of your life awaits. I hope that we can play a small part of making your life more interesting, more fulfilling or better in some way.
Crawford Harris
