Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun
Jacques Martin Barzunwas a French-born American historian. Focusing on ideas and culture, he wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball and classical music. He was also known as a philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America, Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth30 November 1907
CountryUnited States of America
baseball team school
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.
moving done function
Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.
school hands two
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.
reality artist may
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
morning fog long
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
book perfect form
The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.
rivers steps
You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.
reading intellectual important
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.
stupid block writing
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
literature sophistry wit
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
mean simple agreement
Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.
art memorable form
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
splits way principles
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
natural-elements may anarchy
We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.