Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. - Joseph Campbell

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere — to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

There is a favorite story, frequently told by the Zen masters, of the Buddha, preaching: of how he held up a single lotus, that simple gesture being his whole sermon. Only one member of his audience, however, caught the message, a monk named Mahākāśyapa, who is regarded now as the founder of the Zen sect. And the Buddha, noticing, gave him a knowing nod, then preached a verbal sermon for the rest: a sermon for those who required meaning, still entrapped in the net of ideas; yet pointing beyond, to escape from the net and to the way that some of them, one day or another, might find.

The leader might be analyzed as the one who perceived what could be achieved and did it. p159