"Google “America’s best institutions for learning,” and all sorts of websites leap to the screen.
There’s “America’s Top College List” from Forbes...
If asked which is the best institution for learning beyond high school, most of us might answer Harvard or Yale, Stanford or MIT, Princeton or Berkeley.
We’d be wrong.
The best, the greatest, the most far-reaching institution of learning beyond high school is the American military: the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Marines.
Think about it.
These organizations take enlistees, young men and women, many of them just out of high school, and train them in a hundred fields ranging from infantry to military intelligence, from mechanic to pilot, from medic to computer technician...
We’d be wrong.
The best, the greatest, the most far-reaching institution of learning beyond high school is the American military: the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Marines.
Think about it.
These organizations take enlistees, young men and women, many of them just out of high school, and train them in a hundred fields ranging from infantry to military intelligence, from mechanic to pilot, from medic to computer technician...
- Not only does the military offer young people job training and educational opportunities otherwise unavailable to many of them, it also teaches life-skills.
- From their first day in boot camp, they learn the importance of working with others as a team.
- They learn such valuable lessons as discipline, order, personal responsibility, and perseverance.
In Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World, Retired Navy Admiral SEAL William McCraven relates the lessons he learned from a life in the military.
He based his book on the 2014 commencement address he delivered at the University of Texas at Austin...
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