During this workshop we were given a list of aphorisms on education. Some powerful quotes here about the nature, purpose and potential of educational institutions to enact societal change.
I particularly responded to number 6: ‘The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows’, which I later found out was by Sydney J. Harris, the American journalist, drama critic, teacher, and lecturer. This is a beautiful and poetic metaphor for how education can turn the viewpoint of students outwards, to the world, rather than inwards, to themselves and the institution.