Good Teaching Taking Hold

The front page of our community weekly, The Gazette, had short paragraphs from some of our Maryland county’s 10,000 graduating high school seniors as they face the future. Here are some of the responses to the question “Where do you see yourself in 20 years?”:

“In 20 years, I see myself with a stable job and working with people about an important project. I also see myself surrounded by a core group of people who I truly care about that support me throughout all of my actions and events.”

“In 20 years I see myself living somewhere out west with a wife and three kids. Not sure as far as work goes.”

“I hope to be employed as an Occupational Therapist. My ideal focus would be [toward] young children with developmental disabilities. I want to be able to help improve their quality of life.”

“In 20 years, I would have completed an MD/Ph.D program, and I see myself as a primary care physician with my own medical practice. I also see myself doing genetic research of inherited diseases. In the future, I would also like to give back to the community by helping out at Blake, and possibly building a clinic in Sierra Leone, West Africa.”

One of those responses, you may have noticed, is of a different sort than the others, enough so that I looked to see who had said or written it. And what do you know! The author is one of my LDS ward’s youth. The other students’ answers are fine, but that focus on being a future husband and father was great to see.