A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.

Effective Teaching and Mentoring: Realizing the Transformational Power of Adult Learning Experiences (ed. Jossey-Bass, 1986)