Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
3 journalers for this copy...
I picked this up at the Strand during my recent trip to NYC.
7/4/09 - I enjoyed "Paris To the Moon" and look forward to this collection of essays on moving back to NYC with the wife and kids, circa 9/11. Its combination of riffs on life today in the strata of upper middle class, upper East Side oh-so-precious families. (Anywhere else, this family would be considered RICH.) I would love to get invited to a game of Mafia with him and his wife.
"It is said sometimes that the great teachers and mentors, the wise men and gurus, achieve their ends by inducting the disciple into a kind of secret circle of knowledge and belief, make of their charisma a kind of gift. The more I think about it, though, the more I suspect that the best teachers -- and, for that matter, the truly long-term winning coaches, the Walshes and Woodens and Weavers -- do something else. They don't mystify the work and offer themselves as a model of oracular authority, a practice that nearly always lapses into a history of acolytes and excommunications. The real teachers and coaches may offer a charismatic model -- they probably have to-- but then they insist that all the magic they have to offer is a commitment to repetition and perseverence. The great oracles may enthrall, but the really great teachers demystify. They make particle physics into a series of diagrams that anyone can follow, football into a series of steps that anyone can master, and art into a series of slides that anyone can see. A guru gives us himself and then his system; a teacher gives us his subject, and then ourselves."
7/4/09 - I enjoyed "Paris To the Moon" and look forward to this collection of essays on moving back to NYC with the wife and kids, circa 9/11. Its combination of riffs on life today in the strata of upper middle class, upper East Side oh-so-precious families. (Anywhere else, this family would be considered RICH.) I would love to get invited to a game of Mafia with him and his wife.
"It is said sometimes that the great teachers and mentors, the wise men and gurus, achieve their ends by inducting the disciple into a kind of secret circle of knowledge and belief, make of their charisma a kind of gift. The more I think about it, though, the more I suspect that the best teachers -- and, for that matter, the truly long-term winning coaches, the Walshes and Woodens and Weavers -- do something else. They don't mystify the work and offer themselves as a model of oracular authority, a practice that nearly always lapses into a history of acolytes and excommunications. The real teachers and coaches may offer a charismatic model -- they probably have to-- but then they insist that all the magic they have to offer is a commitment to repetition and perseverence. The great oracles may enthrall, but the really great teachers demystify. They make particle physics into a series of diagrams that anyone can follow, football into a series of steps that anyone can master, and art into a series of slides that anyone can see. A guru gives us himself and then his system; a teacher gives us his subject, and then ourselves."
Journal Entry 2 by juliebarreto at Puako General Store in Waimea (Hawaii Island), Hawaii USA on Saturday, July 4, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (7/4/2009 UTC) at Puako General Store in Waimea (Hawaii Island), Hawaii USA
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on the free book swap shelf on the front lanai.
on the free book swap shelf on the front lanai.
Not as good as 'Paris to the Moon.' (His return to Manhattan coincided with the terror attack.) This book will be passed to a 'New Yorker' subscriber.
Delightful book. It brought back many memories for this former New Yorker.
CAUGHT IN LAFAYETTE CA USA
CAUGHT IN LAFAYETTE CA USA
