Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

Education is a holistic endeavor that involves the whole person, including our bodies, in a process of formation that aims our desires, primes our imagination, and orients us to the world - all before we ever start 'thinking' about it

Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.