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WE MUST BECOME Members of a new race overcoming petty prejudice, owning our ultimate allegiance to not nations. But our fellowmen and women within the HUMAN community. To preserve the heritage of one's honor and culture is praiseworthy, but to exceed the limits may prove detrimental. Much cannot be accomplished in the pursuit of spiritual advancement, let alone that of material gains, without the help of technology. Learn! Work! Education and the quest for knowledge stop only at the grave. From now on, you should all open your eyes, widen your views and cultivate in yourselves a broader way of thinking. Your constant objective must be to judge and evaluate beforehand the advantages and disadvantages of any project and its effect on the well being of our entire country. No personal feelings, no concern for the narrow advantages for the few must ever be permitted to sway your judgment. The foundation of your calling is to serve, as dedicated and faithful servants, the common interests of your fellow men and women of the HUMAN families. It is today generally acknowledged that the tremendous advances made in the field of science and knowledge in our generation has been unprecedented in the recorded history of the human race. The need for the growth and development of your knowledge in our generation in this atomic and nuclear age will become increasingly evident to you as you proceed in your work. We would have you add to the love of knowledge and science, for only thus you partake of the spirit of the modern age and serve your country in fruitful and fitting manner. Although the beginnings of civilization of each country vary in time, the fundamental factors which gave impetus to each country to awaken and embark on the road to progress to reach their present level of development and those qualities which are enshrined in the nature of mankind, namely, desire and fortitude. It is for this reason that we have never failed to stress to our people the need and value of education. The truly educated man is endowed with a sense of obligation to society. The potentialities of Education are unlimited. The acquisition of knowledge and skill class for patient learning and hard work, but without education, a man is nothing. A promise unfulfilled, a potential unrealized. In the hands of those whose minds are not guided by the concern for HUMANITY, however, education can become a dangerous and secretive weapon. |