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Jacques Barzun Quotes

Jacques Barzun quotes

American Educator November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012

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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. Jacques Barzun
We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he makes himself habitually aware of words, positively self conscience of them about them, careful to follow what they might say and not to jump to what they might mean. Jacques Barzun
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
Jacques Barzun quote: "Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked..."
Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for. Jacques Barzun
in fact any good mind properly taught can think like Euclid and like Walt Whitman. The Renaissance, as we saw, was full of such minds, equally competent as poet and as engineers. The modern notion of "the two cultures," incompatible under one skull, comes solely from the proliferation of specialties in science; but these also divide scientists into groups that do not understand one another, the cause being the sheer mass of detail and the diverse terminologies. In essence the human mind... Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun quote: "It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called..."
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. Jacques Barzun
It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual. Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun quote: "First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best..."
First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word. Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun quote: "Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have..."
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun quote: "Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine."
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. Jacques Barzun
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats. 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
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race. 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
Jacques Barzun quote: "Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing..."
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. Jacques Barzun

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