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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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