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


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

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



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

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



Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.



James Smith argues that liturgies “are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.

James Smith argues that liturgies “are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.



Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.





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