This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Inspiration presupposes revelation. Inspiration may be called the guardian of revelation.
Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
Our beliefs serve myriad purposes: They help us to organize the world in meaningful ways… They can also connect us with the transcendent dimensions of experience, and give us inspiration and hope, essential tools for confronting those moments of confusion and doubt that are so often part of life.
Doubt | Experience | Hope | Inspiration | Life | Life | World |
If the teacher is ignorant, how can the student be expected to be any better?
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Action | Inspiration |
The time and study, the genius, knowledge, and application requisite to qualify an eminent teacher of the sciences, are at least equal to what is necessary for the greatest practitioners in law and physic. But the usual reward of the eminent teacher bears no proportion to that of the lawyer or physician... The inequality is upon the whole, perhaps, rather advantageous than hurtful to the public. It may somewhat degrade the profession of a public teacher; but the cheapness of literary education is surely an advantage which greatly overbalances this trifling inconveniency.
Education | Genius | Inequality | Knowledge | Law | Public | Reward | Study | Time | Teacher |
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
A true teacher encourages students to find God within themselves, and does not foster clinging or dependence on the physical form... The only goal of a true teacher is the advancement of the students and the celebration of Truth. Selfish or personal motivations are absent.
Dependence | God | Truth | God | Teacher |
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence... He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him.
Know what work you want to do and go after it. The young man who gets ahead must decide for himself what he wishes to do. From his own tastes, his own enthusiasm, how he must get the motive and the inspiration which are to start him on his way to a successful life.
Enthusiasm | Inspiration | Life | Life | Man | Wishes | Work |
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.
Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.
Affliction | Charity | Faith | Humility | Patience | Reflection | Repentance | Parent | Teacher |
Creative activity described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Individual | Learning | Teacher |
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Individual | Learning | Teacher |