“To live wonder-smitten with reality is the gladdest way to live. But with our creaturely capacity for wonder comes a responsibility to it—the recognition that reality is not a singularity but a plane. Each time we presume to have seen the whole, the plane tilts ever so slightly to reveal new vistas of truth and new horizons of mystery, staggering us with the sudden sense that we had been looking at only a fragment, framed by our parochial point of view. The history of our species is the history of learning and forgetting and relearning this elemental truth.” -
There are those who want to find answers and narrow the options to some absolute truth. Like Maria Popova, I want to expand my bandwidth by reading books that start and end with questions, suggesting new starting points for inquiry and adventure. Talking with many of the graduates here at UW Madison, I sense that they have "checked a box" by completing work for whatever diploma they earned. A few, however, have come through the process being better able to formulate questions. Those are the ones who received the better education.
There are those who want to find answers and narrow the options to some absolute truth. Like Maria Popova, I want to expand my bandwidth by reading books that start and end with questions, suggesting new starting points for inquiry and adventure. Talking with many of the graduates here at UW Madison, I sense that they have "checked a box" by completing work for whatever diploma they earned. A few, however, have come through the process being better able to formulate questions. Those are the ones who received the better education.