"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and bies; school was the unhappiest time of my life, and the worst trick it played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible. From this platform of middle age, this throne of experience, this alter of wisdom, this scaffold of character, this beacon of hope, this threshold of decay, my last words to you are: 'there's a better time coming.'"--E.M. Forster, over 100 years ago, set forth in
A Great Unrecorded History by Wendy Moffat. Think of it as the first post on
It Gets Better. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
As a graduate of a tiny Christian academy in rural South Carolina, this quote certainly resonates with me.
Via
Dan Savage
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