If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. -Jacques Barzun Age
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. -Jacques Barzun Work
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. -Jacques Barzun Music
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 Knowledge
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 Intelligence
