Education is not the piling ...

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
 Thomas Moore

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Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.
 Thomas Moore
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
 Thomas Moore
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
 Thomas Moore
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
 Thomas Moore