"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age." ― Jacques Barzun Topic(s): Age More From Jacques Barzun "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." "Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions." "The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." More In Age "All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?"― James Hillman "Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you’re my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I’d just like to get a few more novels under my belt."― John le Carre