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

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

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.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

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.