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Category: 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.

Work, Knowledge, Society

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

Stone, Rise, Civilization

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

Emotions, Hopes, Intended

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

Day, Fruit, You

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

Morning, Time, Long

The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words– not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable

“Plain English” – everybody loves it demands it – from the other fellow.

words, language

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

teachers, teaching

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

morality, ethics

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

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