Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some….

Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Exc….

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for..

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injusti….

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art..

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competitio….

On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or….

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine..

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done..

Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive an….

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to ….

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually cha….

On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting furthe….

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle..

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable….

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room an….

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to ….

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight..

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering int….

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small wor….