Quotes by : Jacques Barzun

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

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.....

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

What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even....

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

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first....

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

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

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