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
simple thinking color
In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.
historical details pages
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.
baseball play legs
Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.
mind computer capacity
When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.
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?.
creative shadow west
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.
perfection alternatives illusion
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
art appreciate age
We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.
cutting air symphony
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.
memories block research
The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.
substance weapons prejudice
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.
self loving-you adults
Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.
equality sublime conventions
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.
artist people world
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.