I want to get rid of Common Core.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.
If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.
Make everyday decisions from a place of love.
The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.