Educator Quotes

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

No one man is superior to the game.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

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.

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

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.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.