Teaching Is An Instinctual Art, Mindful Of

Americans Have Been Remarkably Devoted To The Capacity For Belief, To Idealism. That's Why We Get Into Trouble All The Time. We're Always Viewed As Naive.

A Convention Is A Social Pattern We Have Chosen To Prefer Over Whatever The Raw World Simply Proffers. It Is A Sign Of The Operation Of The Mind, Drawing The Assent Of A Sufficient Number Of Other Minds So That The Agreement Will Be Widely Operative. A Convention Is Not A Custom; A Custom Is A Habit In Which A Sufficient Number Acquiesce. A Custom Can Appear As A Convention, But It Is Really A Lesser Act, The Result Of Passive Acceptance Rather Than Of The Imposition Of Design. It Is The Difference Between Learning To Live By The Annual Flooding Of The River Or By A Calendar.

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.

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.

The Banishment For Life Of Pete Rose From Baseball Is A Sad End If A Sorry Episode. One Of The Game's Greatest Players Has Engaged In A Variety Of Acts Which Have Stained The Game, And He Must Now Live With The Consequences Of Those Acts. There Is Absolutely No Deal For Reinstatement.