Mentoring Quotes

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

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

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15,...

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react stro...

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who hav...

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a t...

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting an...

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of wh...

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that),...

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you,...

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face-...

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: ...

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where hi...

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sens...

He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous an...

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them ...

Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in d...

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literatu...

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

you cannot be friends either with boy or man unless you give yourself away in the process, and Mr. P...

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be...

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