
Art is Long
As a teacher and a coach, I often fall back on one of my favorite quotations from John Dewey, the American philosopher and educator. It comes from his book School and Society, immediately following a long explanation of his conception of a learner's mind: "It is, of course, comparatively easy to lay down general propositions like the foregoing; easy to use them to criticize existing school conditions; easy by means of them to urge the necessity of something different. But ar