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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind...

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By Jacques Barzun, Martin Luther King
| brainyquote.com
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[From the Archive] Too Much Art, By Jacques Barzun

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By Jacques Barzun
| Harper's Magazine Verified
Once again, the budgets of the agencies that support the arts are to be cut. Meanwhile, costs in the arts are going up. But one continues to read and hear of one more dance group being formed, yet another theater company striving to lure audiences. Each new enterprise is self-assured of prestige, confident of support, and hungry for subsidy from public funds. This disparity between shrinking means and growing supply points to assumptions about art that have not been examined for a long time.
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Teacher in America

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By Jacques Barzun
| libertyfund.org
With his customary wit and grace, Dr. Barzun contrasts the ritual of education with the lost art of teaching. Twenty-one chapters deal with three major issues: the practice of teaching, the subject matter to be taught, and the institutional and cultural aspects of teaching. Jacques Barzun is a renowned scholar, teacher, and author who lectures widely since his retirement in 1993.
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