Starting with the End in Mind -Fostering Creators and Cultivators, Part 5 of 5

​​More than 100 years ago, Frank W. Boreham made a powerful observation in his book, Mountains in the Mist:
"A century ago men were following, with bated breath, the march of Napoleon, and waiting with feverish impatience for the latest news of the wars. And all the while, in their own homes, babies were being born. But who could think about babies? Everybody was thinking about battles.

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"In one year, lying midway between Trafalgar and Waterloo, there stole into the world a host of heroes! During that one year, 1809, Gladstone was born at Liverpool; Alfred Tennyson was born at the Somersby rectory, and Oliver Wendell Holmes made his first appearance in Massachusetts. On the very self-same day of that self-same year, Charles Darwin made his debut at Shrewsbury, and Abraham Lincoln drew his first breath at Old Kentucky. Music was enriched by the advent of Frederic Chopin at Warsaw and of Felix Mendelssohn at Hamburg...Samuel Morley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Francis Kemple. But nobody thought of babies. Everybody was thinking of battles. Yet viewing that age in the truer perspective which the distance of a hundred years enables us to command, we may well ask ourselves, ‘Which of the battles of 1809 mattered more than the babies of 1809?’"
"We fancy that God can only manage His world by big battalions abroad while He is doing it by beautiful babies. When a wrong wants righting, or a work wants doing, or a truth wants preaching, or a continent wants opening, God sends a baby into the world to do it. That is why, long, long ago, a babe was born at Bethlehem.”
As we conclude this five-part series, we foster Creators and Cultivators, who... 

• Know their God-given design and purpose, 
• Utilize their gifts, talents, and skills to invent or improve solutions to real-world challenges, and
• Maintain collaborative connections with peers and older/wiser mentors.  

Educating for Eternity,
​Jonathan Nazigian
WCS Headmaster