Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
"Jacques Martin Barzun" was a French-born American history of ideas/historian of ideas and cultural history/culture, who wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball and classical music, yet is known best as a philosophy of education/philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States. He published more than forty books, was awarded the American Presidential Medal of Freedom/Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was dubbed a knight of the French Legion of Honor. His magnum opus, the historical retrospective From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000), was published when he was 93 years old.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous educators! More Jacques Barzun on Wikipedia.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.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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.
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
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.
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.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
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