Invoking humor with stories of his own struggles as a college president and his first encounter with Parker Palmer, the keynote speaker, he warmly welcomed him up to the podium. Following this he described key ways to transform education. What transforms education is a transformed being in the world. We have to celebrate souls in education. We are soul-animated creatures.
Education is dull because the sacred has been driven out of it.
The sacred is anything that is worthy of respect. Education would be transformed if we learned to respect all things. We would know the precious inwardness of the things of the world. We would recover a sense of community. We would recover humility.