from Michael Leunig in The Age:
It is said that many people sell their souls and live with good conscience on the proceeds. I know for a fact there are rats in good schools.
But education excellence or not, intelligence suits us all, and intelligence may be just another word for sensitivity as far as I can understand.
You have to grow it whenever and wherever you can and sometimes you have to survive an education system, an academy or any web of convention, authority or conformity to do it. Life’s a long time and that’s the achievement, that’s what matters in the end — to come through, not necessarily with excellence and brilliance, but with soul.