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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of…
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How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth…
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In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
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Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
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I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear…
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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power…
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving…
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Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already…
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We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands…
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
— Tia Carrere
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have…
— Franz Boas
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The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This…
— Hillary Clinton
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
— Anaxagoras
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
— Richard Wilbur
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
— Anaxagoras
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It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,…
— Charles Darwin
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions…
— Mark Twain
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…
— Charles Darwin
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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