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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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A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Category: Education

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
  • 2. Here's a proposal offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States whether born here or abroad should get to be a citizen until age 18 at which time each such resident has to take a test.
  • 3. To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.
  • 2. Recently I went to a disco with friends and all the young people were saying 'Dudamel we want to go to your concert but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.
  • 3. Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

3 Anger

  • 1. Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
  • 2. Anger is a great force. If you control it it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
  • 3. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 2. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 3. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
  • 2. Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
  • 3. I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
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