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 GIAMATTITalking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIFor me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeachers 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIYou 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.
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 GIAMATTIThe professionals must set a good example.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIAmericans 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIA tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIAll I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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