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Education Exposes Young People To A Broader World, A World Full Of Opportunity And Hope.

We Have Lots Of Studies About What's Wrong With Our Education System. We Need To Accept Responsibility, Be Bold, Find Solutions And Move Forward To Make Education A Centerpiece Of Our Economic Development.

Vernon Reis Opened The World To Me Through Books. He Taught Me That While I Was Physically Firmly Planted In Blue-collar Auburn, Washington In The 50s And Early 60s, Intellectually I Could Go Anywhere, Explore Anything, And Sample Exciting New Ideas Simply By Opening A Book.

We All Leave Personal Legacies For The People We Know And Love.

It's Our Responsibility To Pass On What We Inherited, Not To Squander It, But To Build On It.