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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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According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose,…
— Vikram Seth
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If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across…
— William Wilberforce
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Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to…
— Ellen Page
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No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between…
— Parker J. Palmer
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I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my…
— Marilynne Robinson
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
— Vikram Seth
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Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.
— Mark Helprin
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