A Love Of Teaching

Presbyteri per villas et vicos scholas habeant, et si quilibet fidelium suos parvulos ad discendas litteras eis commendare vult, eos suscipere et docere non renuant, sed cum summa charitate eos doceant, attendentes illud quod scriptum est: Qui autem docti fuerunt fulgebunt quasi splendor firmamenti; et qui ad justitiam erudiunt multos, fulgebunt quasi stellae in perpetuas aeternitates. Cum ergo eos docent, nihil ab eis pretii pro hac re exigant, nec aluqid ab eis accipiant, excepto quod eis parentes charitatis studio sua voluntate obtulerint. Theodulfus Aurelianensis, Capitula ad Presbyteros Parochiae Suae, Capitula XX Source: Migne PL 105.196c-d

Let priests establish schools through the villages and towns, and whoever of the faithful wishes to entrust children to them for the learning of letters, let there be no refusal to receive and teach, but with utmost love let them be taught, attending to what is written: 'And those who are taught shall shine as the splendour of the firmament, and those who instruct many to righteousness shall shine like the stars forever into eternity.' 1 When, therefore, they teach them, let them not demand any reward for it from them, nor let them receive something from them, except what the parents from the zeal of love bring to them of their own will. Theodulf of Orleans, Chapters For His Local Priests, Chapter 20 1 Dan 12.3