CONGRATULATIONS, NU graduates that are a part of the Northwestern Prison Education Program in JANUARY 2024!

HERE, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, ARE

SEVEN TAKE-AWAYS

1. YOU EACH WERE BORN WITH A GENIUS BRAIN

2. THINK ON THESE THINGS…WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE TRUE…QUAECUMQUE SUNT VERA (whatsoever things are true)-* [see also, NU motto]

3. THERE ARE NO DUMB, STUPID OR BAD CHILDREN OR ADULTS, THERE ARE HOMO SAPIENS THAT CHOOSE TO DO dumb, stupid or bad things.

4. THE FOUR PILLARS IN MY LIFE: LTLYITGLOA, TGR, UPR, UL

5. Welcome to the world of LIFELONG LEARNING!

6. TRUST…AND VERIFY

7. REMEMBER TO REMEMBER; YOU ARE STRONGER TOGETHER

SEVEN BOOKS FOR YOUR LIFELONG LEARNING LIBRARY

1. OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!- by Dr. Suess

2. THE VELVETEEN RABBIT — by Margery Williams Bianco

3. ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN- by Robert Fulghum

4. BELIEVING: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence — by Anita Hill

5. ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century — by Timothy Snyder

6. OUR DECLARATION: A Reading Of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality — by Danielle S. Allen

7. DEMOCRACY In the Time of Coronavirus — by Danielle S. Allen

TEN WORDS TO REMIND YOURSELF DAILY (IN ONE ACRONYM):

LTLYITGLOA — Learning To Love Yourself Is The Greatest Love of All

*- “Quaecumque Sunt Vera” This Latin phrase was adopted as the University’s official motto in 1890. Translated as “Whatsoever things are true,” it comes from the New Testament book of Philippians (4:8)

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