The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.

Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.

Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.