The night skyline was stunning. I could see the Monas and Istiqlal Mosque bathed in brilliant white lights and a dozen other places of cultural and historical significance. It’s an amazing, beautiful world we live...

Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression ‘imitators.’ He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression ‘follower’ he always explains...

Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a fine big room under the eaves of the main building, and a wretched kennel of a bedroom,...

The transformed person is a revolutionary only because he has revolutionized himself. He gives the people inspiration by holding up a mirror to their inner substance.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Live in the present, or die in your past; it’s your choice.

If you can’t be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others.

Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.

In the marathon of life negativity is never as light-footed as a dreamer’s sprint.

Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are — to yourself.

When you give meaning to even the most meaningless of things around you, you will always stand to be taught something new, have what you already know reinforced, or be reminded of what you’ve forgotten.

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

This is precisely why I loathed being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything. Has it not occurred to you, my poor puffed-up poppinjay, that there might...

The most effective learning takes place in the classroom, where you can easily raise your hand, engage in spontaneous discussions with classmates and faculty, turn to the person next to you to ask for clarification,...

My father taught me the most important thing about wisdom—that I was going to have to acquire it from other people. So without teaching me, he taught me how to learn from others.

I wrote a song called “Stinky Sodomite.” It isn’t a pop song, a historical song, or a song condemning homosexuality. Rather, it is a children’s song that teaches them how to count. In fact, the...

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...

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught…What a teacher can do…in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I’m concerned,...

My God can do it! My God will do it! My God wants to do it! My God has done it!

Teaching and learning religious plurality often ends up privileging religious texts over practice and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived experience of people who shape, situate, and structure these religious texts.

We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive.

…as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he’ll have to teach himself.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine,...

An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to “teach” their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship....

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn’t have time to teach us like a regular English teacher–we were too far...

…we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn’t poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

Ugliness sees ugliness; beauty sees beauty.

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

If you can’t be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?

Love exalts because it is exalted.

Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told…and have a sense of humor doing it.

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

Active critical reflection is necessary in every aspect of our teaching, not only in front of a class. We must try to reevaluate our own values and experiences as they relate to our teaching. Our...

The purpose of every human life is to teach, through one’s own method, the power of love.

When red fights with white, pink is always the winner. Let that be a lesson in love.

Finally, let me share a feeling of mine, I hope it will not be misinterpreted as pride. I am seventy four now. But still, if they give me a duty in the wooden hut where...

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don’t believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ with me on PBS. He lasted about one act, then turned to me in horror: ‘This is how...

I taught you everything you know. But I didn’t teach you everything I know.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

I knew a teacher that kept a calendar on his desk. He didn’t use it for lesson planning though. Instead he was marking time until summer. That’s what prisoners do on walls. They mark the...

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.

The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.