The real teachers and coaches may offer a charismatic model—they probably
have to—but then they insist that all the magic they have to offer is a
commitment to repetition and perseverance. The great oracles may enthrall,
but the really great teachers demystify. They make particle physics into a
series of diagrams that anyone can follow, football into a series of steps
that anyone can master, and art into a series of slides that anyone can
see. A guru gives us himself and then his system; a teacher gives us his
subject, and then ourselves.
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David Remnick, The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker
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2 comments:
I guess that must be where I turned out wrong. Them there animal-culae.
Sigh. Depraved vegetables... Who knew?
Word verification is "toreatio" -- surely a depraved sort of vegetable if there ever was one.
Wicked pickles. I did not know. Bet the author would have had a thing or two to say about letting the dog sleep on the couch.
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