St augustine of hippo biography summary worksheet
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Saint Augustine of Hippo was a Berber theologian and philosopher.
St Augustine and Teaching
Teacher – Student Relationship
I will teach you, remembering and bearing in mind the obligations of my servantship, so that I speak not as a master but as a minister, not to pupils but to fellow pupils since I speak not to servants but to fellow servants.
For we all have one master, whose school is on earth and whose cathedral is in heaven.
(Serm.242, l,l)
Teacher
Let us then adapt ourselves to our students with a love which is at once the love of a brother, of a father and of a mother When once we are linked to them in heart, the old familiar things will seem new to us.
So great is the influence of a sympathetic mind that, when our students are affected by us as we speak and we by them as they learn, we dwell in each other and thus both they, as it were, speak within us what they hear, while we after a fashion learn in them what we teach.
(De cat.rud., 17)
The more we love those to whom we speak, the more we want them to like what we speak