https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:35:40 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/barzun-jacques/72361/ https://wist.info/barzun-jacques/72361/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:50:54 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=72361 Everybody keeps calling for Excellence — excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: “Elitism!” And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. “Standing out” is undemocratic.

Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
Essay (1991), “Schooling No Mystery,” Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning, ch. 1
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