Lavor K. Chaffin

College graduates who have kept on with self-education generally are the ones who reap the richest harvests of material rewards, and even more important, the great intangible satisfactions of life.

In my observation, the individual has reached his ceiling when he stops his self-education. The competent ones lift their ceilings day by day through self-education. Those who are "drop-outs" find their ceilings constantly getting lower.

Self education can be a bulwark against the boredom of retirement. More importantly, in today's dynamic world, without continuing education one is quickly pushed into the category of the relatively unlearned. Self-education involves thinking, and thinking is hard work.