College of Education sets bar high for other departments

Editorial Board Staff Column

As cliché and repetitive as it is, children are still the future.

The world they will inhabit will have made it through incredible strife, immeasurable trials and calamitous tribulations, leaving an awesome legacy to be fulfilled.

The beginning of this "build to a better tomorrow" begins with our parents, moving subsequently to teachers. No issue facing America today - be it health care, immigration or the economy - is as important to the future of our nation as education. The tasks of the future start their quest of completion in the classrooms and curricula of today's kids.

But we have come a long way.

Tonight at Tiger Stadium, the College of Education kicks off its Centennial Celebration with a formal, RSVP-only event in the South Atrium. LSU System President John Lombardi echoed the importance of education, saying, "Nothing is more important to America's future than a highly-educated citizenry capable of competing with the best in the world," according to a news release.

In an increasingly globalized society, the children of tomorrow will begin the work so unfairly piled by current and previous generations.

The College of Education is committed to providing students with the tools necessary to better instruct our nation's youth in the areas of math and science, history and the arts, foreign languages and physical education.

The college also oversees the K-12 University Laboratory School, which has been ranked among the nation's top 2.5 percent of public high schools by Newsweek and which houses the state's first international baccalaureate program.

This Board congratulates the College of Education on this incredible milestone and wishes the best of luck for another 100 years. Teachers, as much as parents, are responsible for the world of the future, as they are charged with educating our most valuable assets - the children.


Originally published in The Daily Reveille...