New Era

September 1992

Volume 22, Number 9

Contents

• Special Issue: Education—Learn Wisdom In Thy Youth

• The Message: What My Teachers Taught Me
  Elder Carlos E. Asay
  True education doesn’t just make us smarter; it makes us better.

• What Is the Most Important Word?
  Laura Kay Worthington
  If we tell you, will you remember?

• A Waste of Time?
  Adrian Gostick
  School expands your horizons, not just your earning potential.

• Everyday Heroes: Signs of Love
  Kathy Barberich
  Aimee “speaks” with her hands so others can “hear” with their eyes.

• Ten Ways to Get More Out of School
  Jack Weyland

• Our Son, MOT
  Janet G. Lee
  Why the Lord won’t solve all our problems for us. How he does help.

• How I Know: I Asked, He Answered
  Eric Hansen
  He put Moroni’s challenge to the test.

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  My parents expect too much of me in school. What should I do?

• Mormonad: Get a Higher Education

• “I Quit!”
  Brad Wilcox
  Not! (After all, the temple builders didn’t quit.)

• Lift Up Mine Eyes
  Mary Ellen Robertson
  A tough hike up Half Dome taught her to stay close to the Lord.

• Winning
  Janet Thomas
  LDS youth in Vidor, Texas, are a minority who make a major difference.

• Mormonisms

• If Not a University, Then What?
  Profiles of some who are succeeding at alternatives.

• Fiction: Stolen Words
  Lisa A. Johnson
  What’s plagiarism? It’s when a writer makes a wrong.

• Grand Designs:
  Announcing the 1993 New Era contest.

• Through Clouds of Doubt
  Corinne L. Hardman
  Jogging in the fog, a missing temple, and a lesson about eternal goals.

• FYI: For Your Info

• Scripture Lifeline: All That Work for Nothing
  Katherine Strang
  She failed the A.P. test and almost missed the real lesson.

• Not Where but How
  LaRayne Sargent Miller
  LDS students learn to thrive at non-Church schools.

• Poem: Graduation
  Larry A. Hiller