A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes
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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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
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With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.
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Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.
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I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
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Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.
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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.
