A large open hand lies on a thick disc of middle-aged wood. It is baseball glove sized, a daddy's hand, slightly curving upwards from the palm. It is hand to grasp and hold or to place something as an offering to say thank you or I am yours. Cast in solid iron, it has sat at my feet in my living room for seventeen years
An uncertain hour
Schwartz argued that one of the goals of a university education, especially a liberal arts education, is to teach students how to think. The trouble is, said Schwartz, “nobody really knows what that means”.
