Elaine Scarry Quote

This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.

On Beauty and Being Just (ed. Princeton University Press, 2013) - ISBN: 9781400847358