Psy-phi for your mind ;)

Teaching is a performative act....Teachers are not performers in the traditional sense of the word in that our work is not meant to be a spectacle.  Yet it is meant to serve as a catalyst that calls everyone to become more and more engaged, to become active participants in learning.

This then is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

He met the woman where she was, and he treated her as if she were already where she now willed to be. In dealing with her he 'believed' her into the fulfillment of her possibilities. He stirred her confidence into activity. He placed a crown over her head which for the rest of her life she would keep trying to grow tall enough to wear

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste!... I would have to weigh many things carefully before deciding and there would be some things that would cause quite a bit of trouble, simply because I had never formed a personal attitude toward so much. I had accepted the accepted attitudes, and it had made life seem simple.

My religion consists of a humble admiration for the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.