Education: An Ultimate Possession

Writings on Education, Racism, and Flannery O'Connor

"An education is an ultimate possession," explains Donald Verene, Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University.

We don't often think of education this way because we've been trained to think of possessions in terms of material goods. We possess cars and homes and electronic devices. But some of our greatest possessions are not materi…