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.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. - Jacques Barzun
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
- Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made. - Jacques Barzun
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am… - Jacques Barzun
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am…
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
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing. - Jacques Barzun
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
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. - Jacques Barzun
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.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. - Jacques Barzun
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. - Jacques Barzun
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.
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