Essays
Why Education Matters to Every Generation
By Ismail Bhai
For Ismail Bhai, education is the single most reliable way a family can build its future. Wealth can be lost and circumstances can change, but what a person has learned stays with them.
The immigrant story
Many families in Dallas and across Texas arrived with little but a belief in schooling. The sacrifices of one generation became the degrees, trades and careers of the next. That story is worth honouring by continuing it.
Beyond the classroom
Education is also character: discipline, curiosity and the habit of finishing what one starts. Sport, travel, service and reading teach as much as any textbook.
A lifelong habit
The best learners never stop. Ismail encourages adults to keep reading, take courses and learn new skills, and to let their children see them doing it.