[Teachers should be] "Possessed by charity both towards each other and towards their pupils..."
Declaration on Christian Education, 1965, #8

"...and even after they [students] have left school, they [teachers] should continue to help them with their advice and friendship and by the organization of special groups imbued with the true spirit of the Church."
Declaration on Christian Education, 1965, #8

"It [the Catholic school] wants to share their [young people's] anxieties and their hopes as it, indeed, shares their present and future lot in this world." The Catholic School, 1977, #57

"A variety of pedagogical theories exists; the choice of the Catholic educator, based on a Christian concept of the human person, should be the practice of a pedagogy which gives special emphasis to direct and personal contact with the students." Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to Faith, 1982, #21

"If the teacher undertakes this contact [with students] with the conviction that students are already in possession of fundamentally positive values, the relationship will allow for an openness and a dialogue which will facilitate an understanding of the witness to faith that is revealed through the behavior of the teacher."
Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to Faith, 1982, #21

"This direct and personal contact is not just a methodology by which the teacher can help in the formation of the students; it is also the means by which teachers learn what they need to know about the students in order to guide them adequately."
Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to Faith, 1982, #33

"The difference in generation is deeper, and the time between generations is shorter, today more than ever before; direct contact [between teacher and student], then, is more necessary than ever."
Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to Faith, 1982, #33

"The more that students can be helped to realize that a school and all its activities have only one purpose - to help them in their growth toward maturity - the more those students will be willing to become actively involved."
The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School, 1988, #106

"When students feel loved, they will love in return. Their questioning, their trust, their critical observations and suggestions for improvement in the classroom and the school milieu will enrich the teachers and also help to facilitate a shared commitment to the formation process." The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School, 1988, #110

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