Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.
Jacques BarzunThe test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques BarzunThe reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.
Jacques BarzunIt 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