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Article: Making Excellence Inclusive: Liberal Education & America's Promise.(Association of American Colleges and Universities)
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- Liberal Education
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- March 22, 2005
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ADDRESSING THE COLLEGE PRESIDENTS who had gathered, ninety years ago in Chicago, to form what was then called the Association of American Colleges (AAC), William Fraser McDowell introduced what would prove to be an enduring theme in the life and ethos of this community: "Your men and women who are teaching are not fundamentally teachers of subjects; they are fundamentally teachers of persons. And the great passion of the teacher should not be the passion of the language he teaches or the literature that he teaches, but the passion of the life that he is shaping, with language and with literature" (1915, 20).
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