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

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.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

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.

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.

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.

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