Knowing With - the Open Hand community

"Truth be told, he said to me one afternoon that June, "these are the people I know with." "Know with'?" I asked. "Haven't you noticed how learning and knowing are ultimately communal experiences, social experiences?" he asked in reply. "I can see how learning is communal - like learning in a class or small group," I replied. "But knowing?" "Think of the word consciousness, whose components mean to know with. If I begin growing very far beyond what my community allows me to know, I need to persuade my community to think with me or else find or form a new community."

Brian D. McLaren