“Teaching is a gift for both the recipient and the teacher.”
“Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through.”
“But then, gifts are like beauty, arethey not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.”
“The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.”
“Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”
“A great gift would be a map full of evacuation routes for the city, subtly telling the recipient to get the hell out of town.”