By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Pacific Daily News
There's no end to learning. I cherish the words and experiences of those who have seen and accomplished things I have not.People change; things change -- a natural inevitability. Nothing stays the same. We must anticipate what may come and be proactive to influence the change we want to see, so we won't spend our lives getting out of the rubble that could have been avoided had we done something in the first place.
The late veteran professor Henry Steele Commager said: "Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."
Martin Luther King Jr. said: "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."
For some, formal education takes too long to produce results in this instant-gratification era of a click on the keyboard or a push of the button. But learning also has been made easier to acquire through technology.
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