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It's a Simple Game

A professor reduces his teaching life to a few bullet points

Attempting to halt a hapless losing streak, the manager of the Durham Bulls exhorts his young players: "This is a very simple game: You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. You got it?!"

My hunch is that most good teachers would say something similar...

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