Status Updates From The Living Page: Keeping No...

“What a welcome companion is he who can distinguish between songs that differ in the vespers of the birds!”

“The notebooks keep us from becoming gluttonous consumers of Glory. There will be more tomorrow, like manna.”

“There is an intimate relationship between imagination and empathy. How can I see what you are suffering if I cannot imagine your conditions and your pain? If empathy is one of the distinctives of human beings…an education for humans cannot afford to downplay the role of creativity and imagination.”

“The question is not - how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education - but how much does he care?…what if education wasn’t first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?”

“In our eagerness for the beauty we see revealed in Mason’s view of education, we can forget that many of these layers are built up over years, not weeks or months.”

“In becoming Keepers we are compelled to pay close attention to the relationships and details all around us…The blank page is our invitation to the banquet — and all of its courses.”