I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of teaching with integrity and a focus on moral values rather than personal gain.
Jan Hus encourages educators to live virtuous lives and to impart wisdom to their students with the intention of fostering love for God and a dedication to knowledge. He asserts that teaching should aim to benefit society and ensure the spiritual well-being of both the teacher and the student, rather than being driven by greed or the desire for recognition from others.
In practice
This quote could be shared in a faculty meeting to inspire educators to focus on ethical teaching.
I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.
What I have taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.
Kids need to encounter kids like themselves - kids who can sometimes be crabby and fresh and rebellious, kids who talk back and disobey, tell fibs and get into trouble, and are nonetheless still likable and redeemable.
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
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