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I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding.

— James E. Faust

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.

— Barry Larkin

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

— Lao Tzu

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

— Richard Dawkins

I know that what I see in every religious person is not something I want to teach my kids.

— Vincent Cassel

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

— Joel Osteen

Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.

— James E. Faust

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

— Russell M. Nelson

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

— Annie Dillard

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

— Nancy Gibbs

✗Opposing Perspectives

What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

— Rajneesh