If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.

Shanahan (the head coach) doesn’t allow failure to take root.

It’s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and that’s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk...

Kids don’t always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

Great mentors don’t solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.

The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Thus far and no farther.

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and...

If there is a single factor that spells out the difference between the cafeteria fringe headed for greatness and those doomed for low self-worth, even more than a caring teacher or a group of friends,...

I can’t say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach ’em that way.

Jesus’ simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.

Speaking and doing are two different actions springing up the two completely different results. But, the best result arrives when a man’s speaking of good words matches with his corresponding and timely action to benefit...

We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.

A boy, if he’s lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first. Most boys...

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you’re 15, you tend to never lose it.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

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.