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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.
Jacques Barzun
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.
Jacques Barzun
In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
Jacques Barzun
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun
Plain English - everybody loves it, demands it - from the other fellow.
Jacques Barzun
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.
Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.
Jacques Barzun
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
Jacques Barzun
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