“Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. Either they never learn how to work, or, having leared, they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

“Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.”

Calving Coolidge The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, 1929. p. 171

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929) is available for free on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.87969/page/n193/mode/2up

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Everett Piper, the author of “Grow Up! Life Isn’t Safe, but It’s Good”, shares some thoughts about the impact of what we teach in our schools today.

From the article “When safe spaces for the coddled young move from college campus to tennis courts.“

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Martin Luther King, Jr. shares thoughts about the importance of freedom.

“Ideas matter. When you teach self-indulgence and narcissism, you are going to get a bunch of self-indulgent narcissists …”
Everett Piper Author of “Grow Up! Life Isn’t Safe, but It’s Good”

Former President Herbert Hoover expressed his concern that America might fail if it’s people accepted evil and tolerated scandalous behavior.

Have we reached that point on our society?

From “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955.”

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