“We teach boys to be such men as we are.

We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.

We do not give them a training as if we believed in their noble nature.

We scarce educate their bodies.

We do not train the eye and the hand.

We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words.

We aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers.

But not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.”

We barely even teach facts or numbers anymore, so you can tell this was written 150+ years ago, but the larger challenge is still relevant:

How do we teach young people to be “able, earnest, and great-hearted”?

How do we cultivate that in ourselves?