Sometimes, if we're really honest, we lose sight of the academic side a bit while gazing at the baseball side of our college ball-playing sons. The beauty of a college education was recently brought home to me. My eldest, who prior to college never looked further than SportsCenter and the sports pages, now reads the New York Times daily (it's a feebie to students), is really enjoying an American politics course analyzing issues and views in different parts of the country, and can identify when a b flat something or other enters a piece of classical music.
His academic advisor refers to this as the "magic of a liberal arts education". Whatever it is, I like it. I hope baseball goes well this spring, and he's at a point where he'll earn mound time with good performance, and will see less action if he doesn't meet expectations, as it should be, but it is indeed enjoyable to see some of the education taking hold. It's a nice reminder that it is indeed all about the education.
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