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
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History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.
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Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment
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For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.
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To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.