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.

Pessimistic thoughts will only yield trees unwilling to bear edible fruit. Optimistic thinking will always feed those who are willing to sit at your table”.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

You can’t teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

What I’ve found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you’re blue in the face–they’re never going to get it and they’re never going to change. But every once...

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn’t go to hell if you take a day off.

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his...