We have not the motive to prepare ourselves for a "life-work" of teaching, of social work--we know that we would lay it down with ...hallelujah in the height of our success, to make a home for the right man. And all the time in the background of our consciousness rings the warning that perhaps the right man will never come. A great love is given to very few. Perhaps this make-shift time filler of a job is our life work after all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelfful of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good... teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance, I think. It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hear, my child, your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teaching; for they are a fair garland for your head, an...d pendants for your neck.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, an...d teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and cl...assroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the t...est of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »