“We know the paradox.  Education improves earnings but most formal schooling appears to be a waste of time.  Many economists claim that education is mostly a means of signaling quality. I view education as a self-commitment to being a more productive kind of person.  Education is about self-acculturation.”

“When Jesus came eating and drinking with the sinners and the tax collectors, his radical notion of inclusion shocked the individuals who had long awaited his arrival History lends us to believe that eating a meal with one’s neighbor was as much of a social event then as it is today. Not unlike our views of class and social status in the twenty-first century, a first-century Jew was often defined by whom and in what circumstances one chose to dine with.”

“Some mental operations which seem to me to rise to the level of developmental milestones”