A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes & Sayings
25 most famous A. Bartlett Giamatti quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American educator who passed away on 1 September, 1989.
“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 tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.”
“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.”
“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”
“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.”
“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”
“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.”
“We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.”
“Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.”
“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.”
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