Pastoral Resources

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.