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
music purpose emotion
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
self found made
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
education exercise men
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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.
reading writing cutting
One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.
teacher doe done
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
writing race political
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.
art real philosophy
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
boredom historical force
Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.
summer winter swim
Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.
passion trying want
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.
past judging style
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
teacher appreciation educational
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
football distance games
To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.