It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIA liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITalking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIBaseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch — engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe professionals must set a good example.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIMy goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIFor me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTINo one man is superior to the game.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITo go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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