Education can be defined as being able to draw out that which is within us and sometimes to bring meaning out. If we wish to be educated, then we must trustingly assume that we have at our core both sound qualities and a bank of well-judged experience and knowledge. But what gives us the faith that there is this fund of wisdom within us? Perhaps we believe, when we look within, that the fruit of this wisdom is manifest. There we find a recognition and understanding of beauty and truth together with harmony, peace, love and purity. Maybe we see very little of the fruit of wisdom when we look outside, where confusion and conflict seem to dominate. We do know and sense these various fruits in our inner state of being, and this gives us hope for the future that that which lies within, particularly when it lies at the very deep level of the unconscious mind, is usually very real. It is not physical yet still it has substance; so how do we access that goodness? The first step is to look at the quality of the seeds we are planting, every thought and action is a seed that we plant in the moment and from each of those a whole tree will grow. Whether that tree yields sweet fruit or bitter fruit depends on the quality of the seed. The next step is to find out what these seeds need in order to flourish within us: what must we learn in order to produce the well-prepared ground that will allow this little seed to grow? Such information is of course very useful but, like most information, it is mainly to do with the physical world. How do we delve deeper than this? How do we find out more about the non-physical aspect of life and wisdom such as the question of right and wrong or of the self and consciousness?