I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.
Adversity is a great teacher but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive is not worth the price we paid.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading...
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it...
Our government is the potent the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it...
If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.