Splendor of Heart

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Splendor of Heart is written by Robert D. Richardson and published by David R. Godine Publisher. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1567924751 (ISBN 10) and 9781567924756 (ISBN 13).

"Walter Jackson Bate, the legendary Harvard professor, was far more than a celebrated and decorated biographer; he was an inspired teacher. And books about great teachers are rare. Here Robert Richardson, himself a distinguished teacher and biographer, takes the reader back to the Harvard of the fifties when men like Bate could hold a classroom of undergraduates enthralled by making literature seem 'achingly human, and real, and important.' Above all, Bate instilled in his students the heterodox notion that learning itself means nothing unless it leads to action, that simply understanding the text is a dead end unless the words affect and change behavior"--Page 2 of dust jacket.