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Jacques Barzun Quotes

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats Picture Quote #1

The mind tends to run along the groove of one’s intention and overlook the actual expression Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

No subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it Picture Quote #1

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots Picture Quote #1

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence Picture Quote #1

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Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin? Picture Quote #1

I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one’s education or anothers Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same Picture Quote #1

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The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed Picture Quote #1

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so Picture Quote #1

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation Picture Quote #1

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight Picture Quote #1

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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 (Jacques Barzun Quotes) The mind tends to run along the groove of one’s intention and overlook the actual expression (Jacques Barzun Quotes) 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 (Jacques Barzun Quotes) No subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it (Jacques Barzun Quotes) Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots (Jacques Barzun Quotes) To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence (Jacques Barzun Quotes) Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin? (Jacques Barzun Quotes) I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one’s education or anothers (Jacques Barzun Quotes) 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 (Jacques Barzun Quotes) 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 (Jacques Barzun Quotes) 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 (Jacques Barzun Quotes) You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same (Jacques Barzun Quotes) The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed (Jacques Barzun Quotes) The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so (Jacques Barzun Quotes) Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings (Jacques Barzun Quotes) 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 (Jacques Barzun Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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? (Jacques Barzun Quotes) In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation (Jacques Barzun Quotes) Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight (Jacques Barzun Quotes)

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