Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XVI

-Every child who pushes the button triggering impatience, agitation, disappointment or dislike, is actually a gift, provided there is not turning away from facing the storm yet again.
-Each time we persevered and tried again, our skill level rose significantly.
-We can regard all of our failures to become living examples of unbroken equanimity and pure love as essential for our growth and turn towards these high goals with renewed faith and perseverance.
-A very high standard for the students necessarily involves embracing mistakes, setting the bar higher each time so that the mountain might appear, to the logical mind, to be impossible to climb.
-Plasticity is a core feature of the brain throughout life.
-Children learn well when the teacher:
1. Has a warm and loving relationship with each student.
2. Ensures that each child feels safe and protected.
3. Creates a learning atmosphere that produces optimal feelings of well being in each student.
4. Takes account of and has empathy with the fears, self-doubts, and other negative emotions
-For a child to attain their own unique level of human excellence, they will need to have optimized learning in their physical, social, moral and spiritual spheres as well.
-If your emotional abilities are not in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. Goleman.
-Happy children who feel listened to and cared about are more able to pay attention to, understand,  learn from and remember what the teacher is presenting to them.
-This innate moral sense begins to be attenuated as the child grows older.
-Whenever you feel angry, think of Love, develop thoughts of Love in your heart. You will have Peace.
-Life is Love.
-If the thought is in harmony with the conscience and each one of the five Human Values, it is to be allowed to remain; if the thought transgresses any of these moral guidelines, it is to be let go.
-The heart has reasons that reason cannot understand.
-Spiritual Heart does exist.
-When Human Values Education speaks of Peaceful Mind, Open Heart, we are referring to a way of living that has the mind becoming the servant of the Spiritual Heart.