Best Quotes by Jacques Barzun (Top 10)
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Barzun
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun
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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
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The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
Jacques Barzun
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
Jacques Barzun
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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
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Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
Jacques Barzun
More Jacques Barzun Quotes
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Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.
Jacques Barzun
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Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
Jacques Barzun
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Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap
Jacques Barzun
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Jacques Barzun
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The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.
Jacques Barzun
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A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
Jacques Barzun
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Jacques Barzun
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy
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The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.
Jacques Barzun
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
Jacques Barzun