To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIMy goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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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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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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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.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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