Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.
An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.
Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works.
Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.
Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration. . . what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.
In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?
To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves. . . But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.
The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.