is not to stamp our minds on the
young, but to stir up their own;
Not to make them see with our eyes,
but to look inquiringly and steadily
with their own;
Not to give them a definite amount of
knowledge, but to inspire a fervent
love of truth…
Not to impose religion upon them in
the form of arbitrary rules, but to
awaken the conscience, the moral
discernment…
In a word, the great end is to awaken
the soul…"
-- William Ellery Channing (1839)