mentoring

It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

That's the whole point of being 20. You could be a lot of things. I am much older than you are. I AM things.

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

With a more expansive stretch, there__ a better chance that I__l be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she__ smart and beautiful.

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.