For Me, Baseball Is The Most Nourishing

Teachers Believe They Have A Gift For Giving; It Drives Them With The Same Irrepressible Drive That Drives Others To Create A Work Of Art Or A Market Or A Building.

You Count On It, You Rely On It To Buffer The Passage Of Time, To Keep The Memory Of Sunshine And High Skies Alive, And Then, Just When The Days Are All Twilight, When You Need It Most, It Stops.

Baseball Has The Largest Library Of Law And Love And Custom And Ritual, And Therefore, In A Nation That Fundamentally Believes It Is A Nation Under Law, Well, Baseball Is America's Most Privileged Version Of The Level Field.

Teaching Is An Instinctual Art, Mindful Of Potential, Craving Of Realizations, A Pausing, Seamless Process, Where One Rehearses Constantly While Acting, Sits As A Spectator At A Play One Directs, Engages Every Part In Order To Keep The Choices Open And The Shape Alive For The Student, So That The Student May Enter In, And Begin To Do What The Teacher Has Done: Make Choices.

Far Better To Think Historically, To Remember The Lessons Of The Past. Thus, Far Better To Conceive Of Power As Consisting In Part Of The Knowledge Of When Not To Use All The Power You Have. Far Better To Be One Who Knows That If You Reserve The Power Not To Use All Your Power, You Will Lead Others Far More Successfully And Well.