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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A 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 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 GIAMATTIA tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTISome of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe professionals must set a good example.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIIt 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 GIAMATTIBaseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII 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.
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 GIAMATTITo go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIWinning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIMajor sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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