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«In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
fruit, invisible, maybe, remains, teaching, twenty
«Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| Keywords:
correctness, legislate, legislated, legislates, organizes, political, political correctness, tolerance
«Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made»
«A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| About:
Conservatism,
Liberalism
| Keywords:
Air Can, conservative, firmly, in the air, liberal, opposed, planted, safely
«Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
America First, baseball team, first team, had better, high school, realities, small town, teams, The Rules, town
«Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| About:
Idealism
| Keywords:
formulate, formulated, formulates, formulating, idealism
«The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| Keywords:
bourgeois, devices, drawing, drawing room, entertainment, furniture, Grown up, instrument of torture, massive, par, par excellence, piano, The Piano, The Social
«Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.»
«The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind»
«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»
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