Jacques Barzun Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• 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

  Teacher, Truth, Science

  "Reasons to De-Test the Schools". The New York Times, October 11, 1988.

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• The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teaching, Learning, School

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• The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. Teaching may look like administering a dose, but even a dose must be worked on by the body if it is to cure. Each individual must cure his or her own ignorance.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teaching, Learning, Ignorance

  "Reasons to De-Test the Schools". The New York Times, October 11, 1988.

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• I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

  Jacques Barzun

  Thinking, Cheerful, Students

  "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar". Columbia Today, January 2006.

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• A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements.

  Jacques Barzun

  Heaven, Firsts, Care

  "A Loyalty Oath for Scholars". The American Scholar, Summer 1951.

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