Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

1991 An Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry. 1974 The Use and Abuse of Art (A. 1956 The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors Classic and Modern.

Barzun's Teacher in America (1945) was an important influence on post-WWII training of schoolteachers in the United States. Jacques Martin Barzun (November 30 1907 – October 25 2012) was a French-born American historian of ideas and culture.