God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.
That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply question authority—you've got to speak with it too.
By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.
Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.
Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room
If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.
We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.