[W]hat we do with each other when we talk or teach is not delivering a
commodity called information as if we were forwarding freight....
Consider the word information. It's a noun derived from the verb to
inform, which in turn is derived from the verb to form. When you tell
me something I don't know, you don't just deliver a sum of information
to me. You form me.... In that sense, the word authority belongs to
the right we give others to author us: to form us.