Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Sometimes Eli believed his mother was embarrassed by him. “I swear, my mom thinks if I do one thing differently than the average person, I’m weird,” Eli said later. “It’s like she thinks I’m a...

Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin’s system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as...

Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: “This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think...

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Mentoring is: Sharing Life’s Experiences and God’s Faithfulness

It’s exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow.

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what’s possible.

Decide in your heart to be at peace with all men.

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can’t give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

Conflict is just another chance for agreement.

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag’s, do rage the more.

Job calls for a higher standard than drive-by donation. He has treated the destitute not as social experiments or exhibits in philanthropy but as HONORED FAMILY MEMBERS.

Rather than literally burning the midnight oil, which he judged to be unhealthy, John Adams advised his son to make the most of college by developing an inquisitive outlook that would prompt him to get...

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted...

May you have mentors to support your life’s journey.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Mentoring is motivated by love.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent...

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

He who want to be served must first know how to serve.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Planning has no magic whereby you can elicit figs from thistles or choke-pears from vines. The rich, sappy, fruit-laden tree will bear sweetness, and strength and spiritual health: the dry, prickly, withered tree will teach...

Good teachers are good mentors.

They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right...

God did not create you to be alone. He deposited skills, knowledge, and talents in someone out there who is expected to mentor you, teach you and encourage you to go high. Go, get a...

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to...

The teaching of one true man will carry further and deeper then that would dozen white Babus.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking about, everyone is on their...

Great teachers are great mentors.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) “certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

A person can’t pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

MENTOR signifies:M = MotivatorE = EmpowersN = NurtureT = Teacher O = Originator R = Role model

What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Quoting an experienced school counselor: “You can’t change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by...

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.