To be educated is to understand how much we do not and cannot know.

Knowledge is, at best, a mixed bag of inferences, assumptions, and biochemically-induced rationalizations and emotions.

That doesn’t mean we don’t know anything.

It just means we generally don’t know as much as we think we know.

Each of us knows things others don’t know.

None of us know what we don’t know.

Education produces awareness of the vast difference between the known and the unknown.

The known and the unknowable.

Giving us a happy, healthy relationship with uncertainty.

Allowing us to pursue humble, robust inquiry.

Making the things we can know and count on even more beautiful.

Motivating us to respectfully learn from each other.

And to give each other a break.