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"The highest form of knowledge, according to George Eliot, is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world."

— George Eliot

January 1, 1970

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Bill Bullard, Dean of Faculty at San Francisco University High School. For the Faculty, graduation speech, 2 June 2007 (not delivered in person due to food poisoning). While the word "empathy" had not been coined in Eliot's lifetime, Eliot described her project as "to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves in everything but the broad fact of being struggling erring human creatures".

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Bill Bullard, Dean of Faculty at San Francisco University High School. For the Faculty, graduation speech, 2 June 2007 (not delivered in person due to food poisoning). While the word "empathy" had not been coined in Eliot's lifetime, Eliot described her project as "to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves in everything but the broad fact of being struggling erring human creatures".