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Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students…

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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…
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth…
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear…
Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power…
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving…
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already…
We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands…
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take… — Dick Cheney
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and… — Hillary Clinton
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. — Jack Kornfield
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think… — Stephen Covey
By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. — Jean Chatzky
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — Noam Chomsky
It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways… — Katharine Drexel
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak… — Walter Bagehot
To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to… — Joanne Stepaniak
In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable… — John F. Kerry

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