Summertime musing on Luke's parable of the rich farmer...a friend passed along this quote from Jesuit ethicist Dean Brackley...do you agree with his analysis? 

Middle class students need the poor to help them overcome original distortion. At the same time the poor need educated allies who can help them address injustice at the local and international level. What do the following persons have in common: Mother Theresa and Simone Weil, Mohandas Gandhi and Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela?

They were all university educated, middle class or upper class individuals who took up the cause of the poor and made a difference in history.  Part of our role as educators is to help students discover their vocations and to prevent students from sliding from graduation into the great inertial tide of getting and spending.

Our job is not to help them join the rich and powerful, but to help them join the poor, as competent agents of change.  If the college or university community can midwife fruitful engagement with the poor, it can start students on a journey with the majority of humanity, a journey for which some parents may never forgive us, but for which our graduates will never forget us.