<em>My brothers, not many of you should become teachers</em>, 1969
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My brothers, not many of you should become teachers, 1969

Record number
cm000063
Title

My brothers, not many of you should become teachers

Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1562 x 553 mm
Inscriptions

James 3, Practical Religion. (conté crayon, b.r.); McCahon Sept. 8 '69. (conté crayon, b.r.)

Credit line
on loan from a private collection
Accession number
L1998/28/39
Extended inscriptions

My brothers, not / many of you should / become teachers, for / you may be certain / that we who teach / shall ourselves be / judged with greater / strictness. All of us often / go wrong; the man who / never says a wrong word is / a perfect character, able to bridle / his whole being. If we put / bits into horses' mouths to / make them obey our will, / we can direct their whole body. / Or think of ships: large / they may be, yet even when / driven by strong gales they / can be directed by a tiny / rudder on whatever course the / helmsman chooses.
So with the tongue. It / is a small member but it can / make huge claims.

Exhibition history

1969 Written paintings and drawings: Colin McCahon
Barry Lett Galleries
Auckland
6/10/1969 - 17/10/1969

Notes

The text is James 3:1-5, from The New English Bible.