Teach us to care and not to care

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still

Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die…

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

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

Detaching does not mean we don’t care. It means we learn to love, care, and be involved without going crazy.

We need to learn the slow ‘yes’ and the quick ‘no.

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

WE WANT THE CHARACTER quality of patience, but we don’t want to go through the curriculum to learn it!

Can the theater teach us to wait? To forestall our satisfaction? Poems teach us how to wait. The natural world makes us wait. Erik Satie teaches us how to wait. And so does much music. Will YouTube teach us how to wait? Will YouTube teach us how to die?

I repeat what I said before: we must teach a person what he or she can accept at the time, not what we think would finally be best for them.

Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath,
but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every
part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life
consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living.
A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all.
He would have fared better had he died young.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.