Wendell Berry In a lecture at Duke University (to an audience of mostly clergy!), said, "It seemed to me that one of the most important things in ministerial training would be to teach them to do something besides be a preacher. Because it's a bad thing to be professionally trapped and I can't think of a worse trap to fall into than total dependance on being a minister. They ought to be taught to garden, farm, [be a]

carpenter, take care of themselves in some other way. And then they can tell the truth.

"So if I were going to be in charge of training ministers I'd try to see to it that they got a practical education. There'd be always something else they could do. Because churches are quarrelsome places. I know everybody knows it but I noticed it. And I think that a certain amount of thinking ought to start with that. A person ought to be able to say 'Alright, ok. There's this other thing I can do. So I'm gonna tell you what I think.'"