A. Bartlett Giamatti

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. ”

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did. ”

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 tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer. ”

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. ”

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. ”

Americans 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. ”

I 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. ”