Pastoral Resources

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.