Among animals, symbols are transmitted by tradition from generation to generation, and it is here, if one wishes, that one may dra...w the border line between the "animal" and man. In animals, individually acquired experience is sometimes transmitted by teaching and learning, from elder to younger individuals, though such true tradition is only seen in those forms whose high capacity for learning is combined with a higher development of their social life. True tradition has been demonstrated in jackdaws, greyleg geese, and rats. But knowledge thus transmitted is limited to very simple things, such as pathfinding, recognition of certain foods and of enemies of the species, and--in rats--knowledge of the danger of poisons. However, no means of communication, no learned rituals are ever handed by tradition in animals. In other words, animals have no culture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
Younger sisters are almost different beings from elder ones, but thank God it is quite and unaffectedly without repining or envy t...hat I see my elder sister gad about and visit, etc.--when I rest at home.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 »