Education

1. Definition:
1. 1828: The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.
1. Instruction (direction)
2. Discipline (teaching)
3. Enlighten (illuminate)
1. Education is not just the acquiring of facts, but the direction taught by an increased understanding to the world around. It is the parents role to educate, in both temporal and spiritual matters.
2. Quotes:
1. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” (Carl Rogers)
1. Education is learning how to learn and change your environment. Everything else therein is secondary.
2. "Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish the desired end. Character is not the result of chance work but of continuous right thinking and right acting. True education seeks, then, to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men, combined with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love-men and women who prize truth, justice, wisdom, benevolence, and self-control as the choicest acquisitions of a successful life.” (David O. McKay)
1. Education is not to make a man ready for society, but to make a good man. In the process he will acquire many other things, but the goal should be character.
3. Scriptures:
1. “And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.” (Doctrine and Covenants 88:118)
1. Education is also to be shared. Teach others from books of wisdom.
4. Personal Definition:

Education is something to make someone a better person. It allows you to change your place in life. We must share it with others for it to be a true education.

Ephemeral

1. Definition
1. 1828: Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only
1. Short (Brief)
2. Short-lived (Fleeting)
2. For something to ephemeral it must exist for but a moment before being replaced by something else.
2. Quotes from Prophets
1. “Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, pupil of Aristotle, conqueror of most of the known world in his time, was one of the world’s great young leaders. After years of exercising military pomp and prowess and after extending his kingdom from Macedonia to Egypt and from Cyprus to India, he wept when there seemed to be no more world to conquer. Then, as evidence of just how ephemeral such power is, Alexander caught a fever and died at thirty-three years of age. The vast kingdom he had gained virtually died with him.” (Howard W. Hunter, General Conference, April 1986)
1. As is illustrated here, ephemeral things are often great and all consuming at the time of their existence but that existence passes in a short moment.
3. Scriptures
4. Personal Definition

Typically ephemeral is used in a derogatory way. It is often a fad or a fashion. It is a passing thing, something that lacks eternal value or principles. It is of the world. I intend to invest my time and energy (my life) into things that are solid and firm, not in ephemeral things.

Enormity

1. Definition
1. 1828: Literally, the transgression of a rule, or deviation from right. Hence, any wrong, irregular, vicious or sinful act, either in government or morals.
1. Transgression (offense)
2. Deviation (digression)
2. Enormity is something you do that does not comply with the rules
2. Quotes from Prophets
1. “Judas then stood by and, realizing the enormity of what he had done, took the only escape out to sacrifice himself. And Jesus could only explain that of the Twelve, meaning Judas, he had a devil.” (Harold B.Lee, General Conference October 1973)
1. Depending on the enormity of something, the deviation you take can thoroughly destroy you.
2. “sexual sin—the illicit sexual relations of men and women—stands, in its enormity, next to murder. The Lord has drawn no essential distinctions between fornication, adultery, and harlotry or prostitution. Each has fallen under his solemn and awful condemnation. … [Such cannot] … escape the punishments and the judgments which the Lord has declared against this sin. The day of reckoning will come just as certainly as night follows day.” (Spencer W. Kimball, General Conference April 1971)
1. As said before depending on the enormity of something it can destroy you. Some things that stand at that level of enormity are sexual sins
3. Scriptures
1. And thus had they fallen into this great transgression; yea, thus had they become weak, because of their transgression, in the space of not many years. (Helaman 4:26)
1. Entering into transgression has degrading effects on all of your attributes. You will become physically, morally, spiritually, and socially weakened by transgressing
2. We covenant with our God, that we shall be destroyed, even as our brethren in the land northward, if we shall fall into transgression; yea, he may cast us at the feet of our enemies (Alma 46: 22)
1. God has the ability to destroy all nations. And, if we transgress he is compelled to do so.
4. Personal Definition

Enormity, though often used in the context of the size of something (i.e. ‘I was amazed at the enormity of the new skyscraper’) is a scale of the violation of a law.  The types of laws that are typically covered by this term are: laws of God, laws of government, natural law, and moral law. If you commit a sin of large enormity (Murder, Sexual Sin, Denying the Holy ghost) you will become weaker, and God could destroy you. I don’t want to to break a law of any enormity but I know that if I do slip up I can repent and become better for my trials.

Endurance

1. Definition:
1. 1828: A bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without sinking or yielding to the pressure; sufferance; patience.
1. Continuing: persistence
2. Sufferance: accommodation
3. Patience: restraint
1. Endurance is to diligently strive for something. No matter what tries to stop you. That is endurance.
2. Quotes from Prophets:
1. “Patient endurance is to be distinguished from merely being “acted upon.”Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance; it is not only acceptance of the things allotted to us, it is to “act for ourselves” by magnifying what is allotted to us.” (Neal A. Maxwell, General Conference, April 1990)
1. We need to endure. But enduring is not all. We need to magnify our endurance.
2. “There is more to endurance than just surviving and waiting for the end to overtake us. To endure to the end takes great faith. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus ‘fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt’” (Robert E. Hales, General Conference, April 1998)
1. Enduring is not easy. We cannot endure till the end without Christ.
3. Scriptures:
1. “Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.” (2 Nephi 31:20)
1. If we are steadfast (diligent) in following the commands of God and enduring till the end, then we’ll get eternal life.
4. Personal Definition:

Endurance is being diligent in good things. You can endure adversity. Enduring is until the end. If you endure to the end, you can have eternal life.