The Pursuit is More than Happiness

“I know that happiness has been the real, if covert, goal of your labors here. I know that it informs your choice of companions, the profession you will enter, but I urge you, please don’t settle for happiness. It’s not good enough. Of course, you deserve it. But if that is all you have in mind—happiness—I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice, that’s more than a barren life, it is a trivial one. It is looking good, instead of doing good.” – Toni Morrison

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I found this to be a profound and important quote in our larger discussion in the pursuit of an immersion and bi-cultural existence for our children because the pursuit for a global education must transcend our goals for happiness and must be inclusive of a commitment to identifying a more significant purpose for our children within the global economy in which they will participate.

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