Quotes about Learning

They should be encouraged to bring all of who they are and what they know into each class. By welcoming the whole student into our classes, unfamiliar aspects of who they are and what they care about suddenly come into view. What are the heartfelt questions they struggle with? Are they too scared to acknowledge the hopes and aspirations they harbor for their lives and for this world?

Experience alone opens a door, but intellectual framing and reflection are required if meaning is to be made of the experience.

Educate our students as whole people, and they will bring all of who they are to the demands of being human in private and public life. The present and future well being of humankind asks nothing less of us.

Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you.

God hasn't just sent you to do his work in the lives of your children; he will use the lives of your children to advance his work in you.

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people.

For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do it. (66)

Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do

This means that every moment of discipline and correction must be accompanied with instruction.