We should all be aware our future lies with our children.
The best we accomplish in life is to leave our community, our province, our country and our world better for our children.
At the same time we have to ensure our children are provided the tools which will allow them to take over in their time.
What that ultimately means is that our children's education must be the best it can be.
While it is easy to put the responsibility for education squarely on the shoulders of teachers and the institutional education system of schools, but of course that is only part of it.
Parents lay the foundations of education by instilling an understanding of right and wrong, of tolerance for others, of volunteerism, of a good work ethic, and so many other key things which make us good citizens.
The education system then takes over and builds on the foundation provided by parents and families.
We sometimes think of school education as sitting in a classroom learning how to read and write and do math, and of course those base skills remain critical.
It might be a world of immediate electronic access to near limitless amounts of knowledge, but it still requires an ability to write the proper words into search engines, and to be able to read the results.
But school education must go farther too.
And we have seen two excellent examples in Yorkton the last two weeks.
The first saw hundreds of young school students take in the Grain Millers Harvest Showdown in the city thanks to a program sponsorship by Mosaic.
The students were toured through a series of work stations getting a more hands on education about agriculture.
It is important people understand milk comes from a cow and not a cardboard carton bought in a store. Watching a cow milked brings that home in a way a teacher in a classroom could not match.
Then last week Parkland Colleges and the two local school divisions held a Career Day in the city.
More than 2,000 middle-years and high school students attended the event which focused on providing information on post-secondary education opportunities, and potential career paths.
It is one thing to teach students the basic, but we must also ensure they have the information needed to make career choices which suit them best.
And that was what made last Thursday's event, (see Page B15), such a good one for local students.
Our future is our youth and we need to be sure we all do what we can to help our children be ready to fulfill all the future will offer.
