Only Love

Teach only love:

clearly something isn’t working, a failure on our most basic educational levels, that violence is a viable means of communicating social and emotional frustration and despair at their deepest and most savage point of expression. Our schools teach everything but how to navigate life in a meaningful, compassionate manner, leaving that aspect of life to family and religion. For some, maybe many, this has been a failure too, either a spiritual void in place where the teaching of love should be present, or a religion that pits believers of a one true faith against an enemy of all others. Politics and media are worse still, fueling division and stoking hate towards those who view the world in a different manner. Right now I’m reminded of a quote found in the spiritual text A Course In Miracles — teach only love, for that is what you are. It seems a lesson we all need to remember.

teach only love.

it’s important to point out here that when I talk about education it’s not about our school systems or teachers. Both my parents were educators, and truly this was their vocation, what they were clearly meant to do, and their love for teaching children was the underlying aspect of their careers. Teachers provide the foundation from which our entire lives will rise from. No job is more important. For nearly every educator I believe that what they teach is already an…