This teaching is not practical in the sense in which the New Testament is. It is not always sound sense in practice. The Brahman n...ever proposes courageously to assault evil, but patiently to starve it out. His active faculties are paralyzed by the idea of caste, of impassable limits of destiny and the tyranny of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A little instruction in the elements of chartography--a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topograp...hical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map--would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.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 »
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 »
The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity t...o labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him order ...the architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the ...twenty to follow mine own teaching.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 »