mentoring

The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow.

Decide in your heart to be at peace with all men.

Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so healthy.

They (teenage boys)don__ really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first. Most boys unfold in this natural, measured way, growing up with at least one adult on the scene who can convincingly fake being all-powerful, omniscient, and unfailingly protective for a kid's first decade or so, providing an invaluable canopy of reachable stars and monsters that are comfortably make-believe.

I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God_..I now realize that I shouldn__ work harder at a person__ recovery than she is willing to work.

Rather than literally burning the midnight oil, which he judged to be unhealthy, John Adams advised his son to make the most of college by developing an inquisitive outlook that would prompt him to get to know the most exceptional scholars and question them closely. "Ask them about their tutors, manner of teaching. Observe what books lie on their tables. Fall into questions of literature, science, or what you will.

Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

True Mentors, don't make their mentees a clone of themselves

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking about, everyone is on their own. An admissions officer might bias her criteria slightly away from the Résumé God and toward the quirky kid. A student may privately wrestle with taking a summer camp job instead of an emotionally vacuous but résumé-padding internship. But these struggles are informal, isolated and semi-articulate.

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to have three heads.