Quotes by : Jacques Barzun

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

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence,....

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

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

The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words....

Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral....

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

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

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities....