Helen Keller on the Value of a College Education

​"​If you must pass through a desert to reach the smiling land of plenty, set forth bravely, and the hard journey across the waste places shall give strength to your feet. We derive benefit from the things we do not like and do nevertheless because they have to be done … and done—all the more conscientiously—because we do not like them. Necessity teaches patience and obedience."

Helen Keller, "An Apology for Going to College," 1905

​This is an amazing article. Timeless in its wisdom. It should be considered as a mandatory read for all those executives who believe a college education unnecessary. I truly doubt that any of their struggles can compare with Helen Keller's. Every individual to achieve peace in life must learn the value and power of "delayed gratification."

May Helen Keller rest in peace and be thanked for these insights, and may you also learn patience and obedience. …

As Miss Keller wrote, they come from facing and overcoming "hard journeys."

Helen Keller: The Value of a College Education