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Jacques Barzun
(30 Nov 1907 - )
French-American writer and historian whose field of research was the history of modern European thought and culture. He advocated liberal arts studies rather than vocational courses.
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Science Quotes by Jacques Barzun (5)
It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.
— Jacques Barzun
Science: The Glorious Entertainment (1964), 3.
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Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.
— Jacques Barzun
Science: The Glorious Entertainment (1964), 110.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
— Jacques Barzun
Teacher in America (1954), 16.
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.
— Jacques Barzun
Race(1937), 282.
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
Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning (1991), 35. In Richard J. Cox, Managing Records as Evidence and Information (2001), 217.
