“Finally, every young school ought to draft what I will call a failure statement, which would be a sort of intellectual self-destruct button. A mission statement is a description of what a school aims to be, and a good mission statement might take decades to fully live out. Provided a school is working toward its mission statement, it is doing well. On the other hand, a failure statement is a description of what your school would look like the day it functionally abandoned its mission and no longer needed to exist. A failure statement is an acknowledgement that many religious schools lose their way, your school might lose its way, and you have considered all the ways this might happen.”#GibbsSource#education