BREAKFAST CLUB OF GRAND RAPIDS
Established 1936 – John A. Collins, President
UNIVERSITY CLUB
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2020 – 7:30 a.m.
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A wise college professor of mine told me the difference a good four-year liberal arts college makes is that you are taught to dream. Some of his evidence is from George Bernard Shaw’s eight-hour drama “Back To Methuselah.” The play covers the dawn of time to some 20,000 years in the future. In the opening garden scene, Adam’s snake has many funny lines, some are thoughtful. One of his best is: “You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?” Education teaches us to dream, to educate ourselves. We have invited Robert Bartlett, President of a 14 collegiate consortium of liberal arts schools (Michigan Colleges Alliance) that some of us may have graduated from, or at least got kicked out of. Locally, we are lucky to have Aquinas, Calvin University and Hope. It is true that they do not compete athletically with State and Ann Arbor, but they have the ability to compete in the classroom. President Bartlett will tell about the many advantages of a smaller liberal arts college and the great opportunities that your grandkids might enjoy.
Invocator: Mr. Eric Nelson
Introducer: Mr. John J. Jackoboice
Education (1): “Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.” Oscar Wilde
Education (2): “You can’t expect a boy to be depraved until he has been to a good school.” Saki
Education (3): ‘“Whom are you?” said he, for he had been to night school.
COVID: After all that we have been through, the only thing more that can happen is that the vaccine will only be available in suppository form.
