Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIPeople will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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On 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.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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I’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.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you’re going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they’re here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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