The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.
Jacques BarzunFor the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.
Jacques BarzunTo delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose oneโs scapegoats.
Jacques BarzunI can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.
Jacques Barzun