“ Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball. ”
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
~ Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
