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LAW & HISTORY > teacher, historian, author > Jacques Barzun
The piano is...
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The piano is the social instrument par excellence. . . . drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
Source: Preface to Men, Women and Pianos, by Arthur Loesser, 1954.
-- Jacques Barzun, (Nov 30 1907-2012), French-US teacher, historian, author; He influenced U.S. higher education by insisting that undergraduates avoid early specialization and be given broad instruction in humanities.