Fort Gordon holds American Education Week celebration

The Education and Services Division of Fort Gordon celebrated American Education Week Nov. 16-20 with various fairs. “The Year of the Non-commissioned Officer – Leading the Way through Education” was this year’s theme.

Fairs were set up all week throughout the post. The first education fair to kick off this national event was held 9 a.m. Nov. 16 at the Warrior Transition Battalion, Building 357. Representatives from Augusta Technical College, Webster University, Augusta State University, Troy University, Central Michigan University, Strayer University, the University of Phoenix, Paine College and the Medical College of Georgia were there to offer assistance to Soldiers looking to improve their skills and/or to better their opportunities in today’s job market. The event was hosted by the staff of Fort Gordon’s Education Center.

Lt. Col. Edwin Larkin, the Warrior Transition Battalion commander, was the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony. He began with some thoughtful words of Albert Einstein, who was the recipient of the 1921 Nobel Prize winner in physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.”

Einstein said, “One should guard against inculcating a young man (or woman) with the idea that success is the aim of life, for a successful man or woman normally receives from his peers an incomparably greater amount of services than render them.