We talk about the future as something owed to the next generation. I'd rather we talked about what we currently owe them, present tense.
It's a strange kind of comfort, talking about the future. It lets us describe obligations without a due date.
We talk about the future as something owed to the next generation. I'd rather we talked about what we currently owe them, present tense — the placements not made this term, the loans not extended this quarter, the mentors not assigned this month.
Open Doors exists because we found that the gap between a capable student and a completed education was rarely dramatic. It was a transport stipend. A form. A fee equivalent to a week's wages for a parent. These are not generational injustices in the abstract sense. They are line items.
If we're serious about the future we owe, we start by paying down what's already due.