Huff Post Education – David Edmund Moody
“We are accustomed to think that the aim of education is for each student to accumulate as much knowledge as possible. We argue about what knowledge the student should acquire, and how, and for what purpose, and at what cost, and how to measure the results. But what if there were another aim of education, equally if not more important than the accumulation of knowledge? I suggest that the cultivation of insight represents exactly that. Insight is what transforms an item of knowledge into a thing of beauty and wonder, replete with the joy of discovery.”(more)