knowing + community

the courage to teach

quote] "knowing is how we make community with the unavailable other, with realities that would elude us without the connective tissue of knowledge. knowing is a human way to seek relationship and, in the process, to have encounters and exchanges that will inevitability alter us. at it's deepest reaches, knowing is always communal." pg 54

thought] that we need people, we need them so that we may understand ourselves, but we also need them to teach us new things about the world in which they live in. however, people need you, because you provide a different understanding of the world that you live in. community is necessary in order to gain knowledge.