Today is Magellan's birthday. The famous explorer was born in Portugal in 1480. Exploring the world or exploring life is exciting! Through education the world can be yours to learn and to know.

Perhaps, T.S. Eliot said it best in "Little Gidding:"

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

Through the unknown, remembered gate

When the last of earth left to discover

Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river

The voice of the hidden waterfall

And the children in the apple-tree

Not known, because not looked for

But heard, half heard, in the stillness

Between the two waves of the sea.

Quick now, here, now, always—

A condition of complete simplicity

(Costing not less than everything)

And all shall be well and

All manner of things shall be well

When the tongues of flame are in-folded

Into the crowned knot of fire

And the fire and the rose are one.

                                       Little Gidding V,

                                       Four Quartets.                   

                                       -- T. S. Eliot (1943)