Education is not the piling on of learning, information,
data,facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or
instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed...
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed,
but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to
the transformative events of an engaged human life...
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are
schooled but few are educated.
We have to start from the ground up and reconsider what education is. In my language, I'd like to see us educate the soul, and not just the mind. The result would be a person who could be in the world creatively, make good friendships, live in a place he loved, do work that is rewarding, and make a contribution to the community. People say that the word "educate" means to "draw out" a person's potential. But I like the "duc" - part in the middle of it. To be educated is to become a duke, a leader, a person of stature and color, a presence and a character.
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore
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