Sapiens qui prospicit.
(Motto of Malvern College, UK)

That person is wise who looks ahead.

(pron = SAH-pee-ens kwee proh-SPEE-kit)

Comment: A check with Malvern College's website indicates that the founding
fathers of the school chose this motto because they wanted the school to be
"innovative and forward looking." The rest of the college's self-description
indicates that in addition to being forward looking, it wants its students to
hold onto and value the enduring qualities of the past that will make students
discerning and realistic.

The future and the past. This does seem to be what educational institituions
instill in students. Look to the past. Learn from the past. Look ahead.
Plan ahead. Prepare for the future. Students get anywhere from 12 to 20+
years of this kind of looking back-looking forward practice.

It should not be a great shock then, that as moderns we are anxious and
guilt-ridden, depressed and frightened. These are the products that come to
creatures who exist only in the present but who spend a large part of their
time looking to the past or to the future.

We have no commonly accepted, or perhas better to say, commonly shared ways of
practicing the present moment in our culture. Those who find ways to do this
(and there are ways) become, in my opinion, the wise ones, and if not wise,
then at least at peace--happy.