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Knowledge Quotes by 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…
- The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do…
- Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:…
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