The Starr King School for the Ministry is an American Unitarian Universalist (UU) seminary in Berkeley, California and part of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU). The seminary was formed in 1904 to train leaders for the growing number of congregations in the western part of the country. An emphasis on the practical skills of religious leadership and individualized study characterized the school’s transformation-based educational philosophy from the beginning.
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“Time’s the king of men;
He’s both their parent and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“And so they have left us feeling tired and old.
They never cared for school anyway.
And they have left us with the things pinned on the bulletin board.
And the night, the endless, muggy night that is invading our school.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State’s ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)