Quotes by : Jacques Barzun

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.

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

"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.

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

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

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

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

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....