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 marker or a building.
Source: The American Teacher, in Harper's, Jul 1980.
-- A Bartlett Giamatti, (Apr 4 1938-1989), US university administrator, baseball executive; He was president of Yale, 1978-86; became commissioner of baseball in 1989.