“The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.”

— Jacques Barzun

"Reasons to De-Test the Schools," New York Times (1988-10-11), later published in Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning (1991)

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