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Jacques Barzun Quotes

«In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.»
«Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred»
«Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made»
Author: Jacques Barzun (Educator) | About: Self-control | Keywords: find oneself, misnomer
«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»
«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»
«Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.»
«The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.»
«Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.»
«The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind»
Author: Jacques Barzun (Educator) | Keywords: The test
«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»
Author: Jacques Barzun (Educator) | About: Life, Speech | Keywords: speechless, unborn, washed

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