From the Librarian of Alexandria

Have you read this Salute to the Great Youth of Egypt?* It’s from the director of the modern reincarnation of the greatest library of the ancient world, which once aspired to collect all the world’s knowledge. Knowledge is not neutral: it reveals good and evil. When you know, you must choose.

You have been called the children of the internet, or the Facebook generation, but you are more. You are the vanguard of the great global revolution of the 21st century. So, go forth into the journey of your lives, and create a better world for yourselves and for others. Lead and all shall follow. Think of the unborn, remember the forgotten, give hope to the forlorn, include the excluded, reach out to the unreached, and by your actions from this day onwards lay the foundation for better tomorrows.

Ismail Serageldin, Librarian of Alexandra, declares:

NO Politics without principle
NO Wealth without work
NO Commerce without morality
NO Pleasure without conscience
NO Education without character
NO Science without humanity

Amen!

*Via my friend Dawn K, who passed it around her office--the US State Dept.'s Office of Citizen Exchange, Youth Division. Thanks!