Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

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.