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Education is the key to succession preparedness

Imagine that you have to go on a five-year trip with your family to an unknown destination where very little of your previous knowledge and experience will be of any use. Imagine, furthermore, that your family’s material wealth, its emotional well-being and its stature in the community will all depend on successful completion of this trip.

Wouldn’t you go out of your way to prepare your family for such a journey? Wouldn’t you, at a minimum, want to give them the basic survival skills necessary to complete the passage successfully? Of course,

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