Marshall Gregory famous quotes

Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.
-- Marshall Gregory

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My teaching influences who you are and who you become, I said, because insofar as I persuade you to change what you know, I can't help but persuade you to change who you are. A vast portion of who you are just is a matter of what you know.
-- Marshall Gregory

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The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.
-- Marshall Gregory

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To us, to the everyday teachers of everyday students, neither of whom is writing the book of the universe but who both have their fullest life only when they align themselves with its truths, working out our own commitment to and our own vision of agape, in however homely or personal a form, is a life long task that both guides us in our teaching endeavors and honors those endeavors at the same time.
-- Marshall Gregory

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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.