" A teacher, for instance, seems to be an active agent-correcting papers, preparing exams and submitting grades. While these functions are important, they do not make the teacher a person. Such activities may make her a teacher, but we have known too many who have moved the students from one textbook to the next but could not be a person to students, igniting in them a desire to indwell the content of the class by sharing in the life and passion of the teacher. "

― Andrew Root , The Relational Pastor: Sharing in Christ by Sharing Ourselves