Towards Wisdom on the Walk of Walk of Wisdom (3): Agnes Kant

By Klaas Drupsteen

When are you wise? How do you become it and what does it actually do for you? In the TV program ‘On the Way to Wisdom’ of Omroep Gelderland I went looking for answers to those questions.

I walked the Walk of Wisdom in nine stages and each time a well-known Gelderlander walked with me. I spoke with them about their lives and work, the way they have developed and the wisdom they have gained over the years.

In the third episode, which was broadcast on 24 January, former SP politician Agnes Kant is the walking companion. It is nice to see that Agnes still has many ideals and continues to advocate for a more beautiful and fairer world. She has seen that people almost always have each other’s best interests at heart, but that humanity as a whole could still be a little wiser.

At the end she writes two quotations in my wise proverb book. ‘Science acquires knowledge faster than society acquires wisdom’ and ‘Auch aus Steinen die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man Schönes bauen’.

‘On the way to wisdom’ can be viewed on the site of Omroep Gelderland