“We are concerned to restore with diligent zeal the workshops of knowledge which through the negligence of our ancestors have been well-nigh deserted. We invite others by our example, as much as lies with in our power, to learn to practice the liberal arts.”
— Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor (AD 742-814)
It is easy to complain and criticize when the status quo is, shall we say, less than optimal. We talk and criticize and even write up formal solutions in articles and blog posts. But that kind of attitude will never change the situation.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. – Theodore Roosevelt
Can’t someone else do it? No. “Someone else” is a fictional character. If you have a dream, start or join the movement that will make that dream a reality.
We’re doing it, care to join?
“The common! We are surfeited with it; it has made our souls torpid and our limbs rigid. Under the guise of goodness it is a curse. The want in the world, the want in the Church, to-day as at other times, but to-day as never before, is of men among men, of men who see farther than others, rise higher than others, act more boldly than others. They need not be numerous. They never were numerous. But, while the few, they take with them the multitude and save humanity.” – Archbishop John Ireland (1838-1918)
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