"And I learned from a whole childhood of looking in fields how the purpose of things ought perhaps to remain invisible, no more than half known. People who know exactly what they are doing seem to me to miss the vital part of any doing ... ". ('Finding', Guy Davenport)

Thanks to John Latta for sending me back upstairs to my copy of The Geography of the Imagination. An essay that reads like a great corrective to much of what I see going on in current education. Timely.