I thought that today, on the day when many teachers, if not students, head back to their classrooms would be ideal to share an excerpt from a piece RLP wrote over at CC:
... The human hunger to acquire knowledge is one of the things that sets us apart from other creatures on our planet. We are proud of our knowledge; it defines us in important ways. But we also need grace and wisdom and serenity if our search for knowledge is to have a satisfying ending.