{"id":1351,"date":"2010-08-20T07:09:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2010-08-23T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T15:59:33","slug":"in-praise-of-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/in-praise-of-teaching","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Mr-Holland.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Mr-Holland-150x150.png\" alt=\"Mr. Holland\" title=\"Mr Holland\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1356\" \/><\/a><em>We, the Catholic bishops of the United States, wish to offer our deep gratitude to those individuals who staff our Catholic elementary and secondary schools, the dedicated lay and religious administrators and teachers. We applaud their professionalism, personal sacrifices, daily witness to faith, and efforts to integrate learning and faith in the lives of their students in order to \u201caccomplish the very purpose of evangelization: the incarnation of the Christian message in the lives of men and women\u201d (Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to Faith, no. 31). We take this opportunity to encourage all who are devoted to working in Catholic schools to \u201cpersevere in their most important mission\u201d (Ecclesia in America, no. 71).<\/em> &#8212; <em>Renewing Our Commitment to Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools in the Third Millennium<\/em>, USCCB<\/p>\n<p><em>You have been called to teach. This is a vocation, a Christian vocation&#8230;There, at your teacher&#8217;s chair and desk, God has called you by name to an indispensable service to the truth.<\/em> &#8212; Pope John Paul II, October 4, 2001<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"264\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-jM9MC7t-8g?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, the Catholic bishops of the United States, wish to offer our deep gratitude to those individuals who staff our Catholic elementary and secondary schools, the dedicated lay and religious administrators and teachers. We applaud their professionalism, personal sacrifices, daily witness to faith, and efforts to integrate learning and faith in the lives of their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/in-praise-of-teaching\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Praise of Teaching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips","tag-inspiration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-lN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}