If you haven't seen this video ([youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhLlnq5yY7k?wmode=transparent]) watch it. It is a minute and a half and I always come away having learned something.
I love to create. I love to take some raw materials, be they paper, or paint or an idea or words, and fashion it into something that no one has seen before. I love the idea of seeing a figure in your mind and working with skill and determination until it comes to life.
I believe that each of us has the opportunity to create amazing things. A core idea of being a Latter-day Saint is the idea that we are always learning. I was thinking about the exciting opportunities that decentralized education can provide. The idea that a farmer in Indiana or India, can get access to the same pool of knowledge as a Stanford student is electrifying. But what happens when everyone has a college education? Is this a bad thing? The answer is of course, no. There are so many problems in this world. We need the creativity and intelligence of everyone to solve them. We need everyone to create solutions to problems.
Just imagine if everyone had a great education. Not necessarily a college education, but a great education. They knew essential and important truths, and could make and test conclusions. Intelligent and creative people would have the tools and ideas nessisary to work together to attack the big, hard, important problems. And I think we could solve a fair number of them too.