Jacques Barzun Quotes About Students
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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.
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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
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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.
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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.
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