Without a narrative, life has no meaning. Without meaning, learning has no purpose.

Without purpose,
schools are houses of detention, not attention. (Neil Postman, The End of Education, 1996)

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin)

There is an increased need for a politics and a notion of border crossing that can work across the fault
lines of nations, classes, races, sexualities, and religions as they operate to create new forms of division,
demarcation, and separation. (Henry Giroux, Border Crossings, 1992)