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Feb 17, 2007
"The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always." --William Faulkner
Secret to Long Life: School
For decades, there have been a variety of hypotheses about what it takes to live a long life -- money, lack of stress, a loving family, lots of friends, even IQ. In every country, there is an average life span for the nation as a whole and there are average life spans for different subsets, based on race, geography, education and participation in faith-based activities. Surprisingly, year after year, the one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education. And, health economists say, those factors popularly believed to be crucial -- money and health insurance, for example, pale in comparison.
BE THE CHANGE
Educate yourself today on a worthwhile topic you know nothing about: perhaps home composting, or Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Drum Major Instinct" speech, or the social phenomenon of a "Tipping Point."
