Serve: BYU motto

Title: BYU motto

Date: 20^th Century

Nationality: American

Creator: George Booth (Craig)

Medium: Many

http://purgav.blogspot.com/2009/04/entered-to-learn-going-forth-to_27.html

            BYU’s unofficial motto “Enter to learn; go forth to serve” is a perfect “artifact” to present at the end of all the others. This motto suggests what we are to do once we have gone through (and hopefully continue to go through) the learning cycle. We are to take what we have learned and who we have become and serve those around us. If we have acted, struggled, discovered, found information, made connections, apply knowledge, and become someone different, then we use that to better the world around us. That is the purpose of learning. This is vital for a civilization to understand, because in reality learning does little until it is used to improve the world and serve others. If a civilization never serves and helps others with the knowledge that they have, then learning is pointless and a society can never flourish. But if a civilization uses the learning cycle to serve and help others, then the society will prosper and learning can continue to help the society be lifted continually higher.