Only the Brave Should Teach

Only the brave.
Only the brave should teach.
Only those who love the young should teach.
Teaching is a vocation.
It is as sacred as the priesthood; as innate
a desire as inescapable as the genius which
compels an artist.
If he has not the concern for humanity,
the love of living creatures, the vision
of the priest and the artist, he must
not teach.


Pearl S. Buck