Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren G. BennisRead
I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of teaching and mentoring over just achieving victories.
Vicente Del Bosque expresses that his primary goal as a coach is not merely to secure wins but to educate and nurture players. This perspective highlights a deeper philosophy in sports, where the development and growth of individuals are valued just as much, if not more, than the accolades achieved through competition.
In practice
During a sports seminar on coaching methodologies.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.
... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.
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