“Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.”

— Jeannette Walls , book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

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American writer and journalist 1960

Betty Edwards (1926) American artist

Source: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (1979), p.237

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“Bring your ignorance to the Holy Spirit, the great teacher, who by His precious truth will lead you into all truth.”

William Paton Mackay (1839–1885) Scottish clergyman

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 337.

“Your life is hard to change. But at the same time, I've also always felt that I'm the same person now as I was at five, so I've been sort of reaching out to that too, in a way.”

Kim Gordon (1953) American musician, bassist of Sonic Youth

On life after divorce and a health scare in “Fabulous at Every Age: Kim Gordon, 60s” https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a10255/kim-gordon-0415/ in Harper’s Bazaar (12 Mar 2015)

“Science cannot find everything and our psychological studies end within the darkness of intellect. This is why no teacher can teach.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet

शिक्षा (Education)
Context: In the fields of life there isn't any geometry. Here if whole is taken out from the whole then whole itself remains. Inside one is substance, inside atom is the world. Science cannot find everything and our psychological studies end within the darkness of intellect. This is why no teacher can teach.