Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it.… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share
