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1 " Today education has become a training ground for competition. "
― Parker J. Palmer , The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life
2 " Community can teach us that our grip on truth is fragile and incomplete, that we need many ears to hear the fullness of God’s word for our lives. "
3 " By attaching our identity to things only a few can have, we ignore the intrinsic preciousness of all human life. "
4 " If one grows up in a family where trust does not exist and support cannot be found, one becomes an adult fearful of further rejection, an adult who will not risk community again. "
5 " It seems ironic to suggest that some of us may be called to build community in our churches, for the church as it was meant to be is a historical archetype of community. "
6 " I assume that each person contains all the potentials that education wishes to cultivate: insight, capacity for observation and analysis, ability to appreciate, creative energy. "
7 " well-structured group can be smarter than any of its members. "
8 " is not a voracious capitalism but the spiritual insight that we cannot buy the identity and security we seek. "
