“I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.” YearsChildrenCareCommunityReligiousStudentsCatholicSeekingGraduatesDisguiseAgnosticWho CaresGraduate StudentsNovicesReligious Community Author:Mary Rose O'Reilley
“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.” StillsHelpingAbleTurnsCoursesFoundLiteratureTermFictionTeachGoneWrittenStudentsHelp MeVillageSaneDepressingConstructsNaivePonderingTruthfulnessEvaluationHardyIndustriousFreshmanEliotCounterarguments Book:The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd Source: The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
“If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.” IfsBigsTeachStudentsLowsStandingSellsWho You AreEcstasyMentalityAffront Book:The Peaceable Classroom Source: The Peaceable Classroom
“What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?” IfsRichPossibilityStudentsWhat IfInner Life Book:The Peaceable Classroom Source: The Peaceable Classroom