Frankweiler and Paul

Claudia said, "But Mrs. Frankweiler, you should want to learn one new thing every day. We did even at the museum."

"No," I answered, "I don't agree with that. I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow."

- E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler


The wise words of this old woman in the book we just finished with my students remind me a bit of the apostle Paul:

"If I can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, but have not love, I am nothing."
and
"Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up."