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A. Bartlett Giamatti
American
Educator
About the author
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
A. Bartlett Giamatti,
American
Educator
#Baseball
#Race
#Decency
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 Giamatti,
American
Educator
#Teaching
#Heart
#Society
#Act
#Education
#Liberal
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
A. Bartlett Giamatti,
American
Educator
#President
#American
No one man is superior to the game.
A. Bartlett Giamatti,
American
Educator
#Man
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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti,
American
Educator
#Work
#Art
#Building
#Teachers
#Giving
There 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 Giamatti,
American
Educator
#Life
#People
#Work
#Baseball
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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti,
American
Educator
#Right
#Society
#Mind
#Answers
#Doctrine
#Lust
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A. Bartlett Giamatti,
American
Educator
#Nothing
#Baseball
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti,
American
Educator
#Art
#Teaching
#Potential