Cool Quotes

	Today, approximately one half of the world’s population is under the age of 25. / U.S. Census Bureau
	Growing Leaders equips more than 50,000 students and staff each year to lead more effectively.
	Approximately 60% of college students move back home after graduation. / *Newsweek Magazine 2008*
	"The language of the future is images, not words." / *Futurist Leonard Sweet*
	Charles Malik is a Harvard educated Lebanese scholar and diplomat. He received more than fifty honorary doctorates from Canadian, American, and European universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Notre Dame. Here is what he writes:
	"The university is a clear-cut fulcrum with which to move the world. One of the best ways of treating the macrocosm is through the handle of the universities in which millions of youths destined to positions of leadership spend, in rigorous training, between four and ten years of the most formative period of their life. More potently than by any other means, change the university and you change the world.”
	Today’s generation is EPIC:
	E – Experiential P – Participatory I – Image-driven C – Connected *Leonard Sweet*
	College students today watch 35 movies for every one book they read. / *Faculty Survey, University of Cincinnati*
	“Relevance is using what is cultural to say what is timeless.” / *Reggie Joiner, founder of The ReThink Group*
	Research done in 2000, reported that 90% of the Millennial generation planned to attend college. Today, 30% do not even graduate from
	high school. / *Sociologists Howe & Strauss*
	Growing Leaders currently partners with over 700 schools, non-profit organizations and churches to develop leaders.
	Young people, ages 13-24 years old, now spend more time on-line than they do watching TV / *MSNBC Report*
	There are about 6,500 college campuses in the U.S. At least 2,500 don’t have a strong ministry or outreach presence on the campus. **Ivy Jungle Network**
	“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind are convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.” / *Aristotle*
	Half of American teens today are involved in some form of community service. / *Authors Neil Howe and William Strauss*
	This generation of kids loves family. For the first time in two generations, kids today did not list athletes as their top heroes. At the top of the list were mom and dad. Number two was grandma and grandpa. / *National High School Survey*
	The average American makes seven major decisions in their life. At least five of them are begun in college. / *U.S. Department of Labor*
	Four out of five teenagers today think about their future several times a week. / *Author Josh McDowell*
	We are interested in a movement, not a program. Programs usually start big, and then fizzle into something small. Movements start small and grow very large over time. / Dr. Tim Elmore
	This is the first generation of youth who don’t need adults to secure information. / *Leonard Sweet*
	Campus ministers reported that the number one need in their ministry is leadership development. / *The Ivy Jungle Network Survey*
	“They are problem solvers by nature. It may have something to do with the way we are teaching them and parenting them, but just get a group of students together to discuss any area of concern, and they all have a solution. It’s exciting to watch.” / *John Crawley, Montessori Principal*

	Of all the people you know or know about, who do you look up to the most?
	My Parents: 79% Athletes: 13%
	*Survey of 12-14 year olds, Time, July 5, 1999*

	“We have a gigantic educational assembly line that coercively processes students and treats them with Ritalin or therapy if they can’t sit still in the cage.” / *Camille Paglia*

	Teens identified the top four possible causes of problems in America as: selfishness, lack of respect for the law and authority, wrongdoing by politicians, and lack of parental discipline. / Primedia, 1998 National Youth Survey

	“The best way to rebel is for me to dress formally all the time, be honest, respect my elders, love my country, and drive a used Toyota, instead of the prerequisite SUV or suitable car for the under-35 bracket." / *Chris Loyd, 17*

	Kids today are under-challenged. We’ve become satisfied with babysitting them, when we need to give them tools to become change agents in the world. / *Dr. Tim Elmore*
	“The best leaders today are master users of stories, images and symbols.” / *Best-selling author Tom Peters*