Jacques Barzun

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

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"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

Jacques Barzun

"Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done."

Jacques Barzun

"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."

Jacques Barzun

"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."

Jacques Barzun

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."

Jacques Barzun

"It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence."

Jacques Barzun

"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow."

Jacques Barzun

"Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

Jacques Barzun

"In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle."

Jacques Barzun

"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle."

Jacques Barzun

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."

Jacques Barzun

"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art."

Jacques Barzun

"Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball."

Jacques Barzun

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams"

Jacques Barzun

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

Jacques Barzun

"Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes."

Jacques Barzun

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