thinknlearn

I am afraid the impossibility of teaching has begun: there is nothing in or behind many of the students to hold them up against a discipline. Tuesday we kill hogs, if the weather's right.

A treasure lies hidden in the soul of Latin America, a spiritual treasure to be recognized as a gift for us who live in the illusion of power and self- control. It is the treasure of gratitude that can help us to break through the walls of our individual and collective self- righteousness and can prevent us from destroying ourselves and our planet in the futile attempt to hold onto what we consider our own. If I have any vocation in Latin America, it is the vocation to receive from the people the gifts they have to offer us and to bring these back up north for our own conversion and healing.

The clock of Frederick the Great is said to have stopped when he died--But did it? Maybe it was the other way around. Maybe the clock stopped first, and suddenly, without his companion's genial tock, the old man lost the steadying beat marking out a regular rhythm for him, lost his step, stumbled over a gap in time and his inner ticker stopped.

Late Henry James may be pearls, but when students yawn, that doesn’t make them swine.

"in a grain of grammar, a world of hope"

Aligning the agenda of the lesson with the agenda of the students is one of the greatest and most worthwhile challenges of teaching.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.