The highest purpose of education is to unlearn what we once took for granted, to replace certainty with subtlety, prejudice with compassion, and destiny with possibility. If reason is slippery, knowledge is even more so. The oracle at Delphi called Socrates the wisest of all people because Socrates knew how little he knew. So instead of running around thinking that we know things, giving up our lives to those things and making trouble in the world, we would do better to sit down a bit, recognizing just how muddled we are and, if we are not in England, enjoying some sunshine at the same time.
