Quotes About Mentoring

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Great harm comes when we keep our young people in a bubble in an effort to shield them from hard questions, or when we dismiss their struggles and exhort them to "pray harder," "read the Bible" or "just believe.

Principio: Nada es más importante en tu vida que ser un instrumento para formar el alma de una persona.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.