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:
Nin,
Totally wonderful this.
Good for you, for sticking up for the poor dear.
They were always wrong, the Old Masters.
Ah perfect. I love the end of the poem, and here it is. and more--in the link. Did you know that women used to wear merkins? When was that, the 1400s?
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