1: Who are we, anyway?

We're a member of the human race: homo sapiens. 

We humans in the course of our history have developed the capability to pass on what we learn from our experiences to future generations through a vehicle known as knowledge.  

In a recent talk at Brookings, the President of Bell Corp. put what is company is all about succinctly (I'm paraphrasing): "Bell is an aggregate group of technical people doing a job important to our country's defense."  That's it!  Specifically, each makes use of the knowledge he has gained to bring about the military weapon that protects us 24/7: each contributes his abilities to complete the particular defense project.   

We're like that.  Our most fundamental project is to preserve the human race.  Our society as one identifiable group among all others inhabiting the planet Earth has preserved the knowledge gained by our predecessors to be passed along to those of the now generation through educational institutions; and especially in the libraries and classrooms of the highest learning bodies, the universities. And, we include what knowledge we have gained through life. 

And that's all we are: possessors and users of knowledge, which we then pass on to the next generations through vehicles of knowledge acquisition and retention, whose highest structure of learning and knowledge retention, is the university. 

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