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THEpublished by The Great Books Foundation\"I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state,and all daylong and in all places am always fastening upon you,arousing andpersuading and reproaching you...”Socrates'Apology  \n# Our Nation of Highbrows\n\n“Wouldn't it be far better,\"Jacques Barzun asks,\"'not to knowso much as to know so many things that ain't so'?”  \nThere is no snob under heaven toequal this type,and its characteristicsare by no means new.\"Who does notknow fellows,\"asks Holmes the Auto-crat,\"that always have an ill-condi-tioned fact or two which they leadafter them into decent company likeso many buldogs..?The men offacts wait their turn in grim silence,with that slight tension about thenostrils which the consciousness ofcarrying a 'settler'in the form of afact or a revolver gives the individualthus armed....What!Because breadis good and wholesome and nourish-ing,shall you thrust a crumb into mywindpipe while I am talking?”  \nfear that some of our teaching andlearning encourages not only this lackof steady glow,but the bad emotionsthat go with it.Always beware of aman who begins;\"I’m only a low-brow,of course,but I want to tellyou that——.\"Nine times out of ten,what he will tell you is fact,or prej-udice passing for fact,of which heis intensely proud and for which heclaims your admiration.That is,he isa highbrow,or in older parlance,apedant.Only,being a partial and nota thorough pedant,he also exhibitsthe other character of lowbrow andbelongs to the huge class I shouldlike to call the \"high-lows.\"  \nAll generous minds have a horror ofwhat are commonly called\"facts.\"They are the brute beasts of the in-tellectual domain..·.I allow no\"facts\"at this table.—The Autocratof the Breakfast Table.  \nD resumably all [the]vast machine[ofl teaching and course taking[O1]teacning and Course taKimg,[of]examining and graduating in allkinds,works towards some great end.Above the social need to read and write,above the skillful doing of technicaltasks,above even self-fulfillment,theremust be a result—conscious or un-conscious—affecting the country as awhole.I can only think that thisceaseless activity answers the need ofevery nation to have a head,that isto say,a portion of itself devoting allits energy to leadership in intellectualmatters—science and art and govern-ment and literature and education.  \nDo I mean a group set apart andknown as intellectuals?No,that is aloaded word,at once too contemptu-ous and not inclusive enough.A toplayer of highbrows?Well,that is thecommon term,but in my opinion a badone,because it suggests that the bodyof the nation is composed of low-brows,whereas the truth is that high-brow and lowbrow are by nature oneperson,and that person is every Amer-ican,more or less.The two words\"high”and \"low\"simply denote twophases,like the alternating light anddark of a blinker;and I very much  \nJohn Sloan:Connoisseurs of Prints Courtesy:The Art Institute of Chicago  \nThis is uncompromising enough,but for a teacher and a scientist todisallow facts and condemn \"men offacts”calls for explanation,partic-ularly if,as I hinted,some nationalissue hangs upon it.To many goodpeople,our American zeal for acquir-ing and storing facts is praiseworthy,and I am ready to concede that oncein a while the presence of factualminds in our midst is an asset.In avast housekeeping operation such aswar,the men of facts can be muster-ed out and pumped dry for the goodof the state,their scattered drops ofparticular knowledge being caused toflow together into a great reservoirBut even in war this is useful onlyif the scarcer and more valuable typeof man is available,the man of ideas,with a mind accustomed not merely toholding facts in solution but to crys-tallizing them for use.And the mak-ing of such men in sufficient numbersand varieties ought to be the greatend of all our teaching.  \nThe highbrow or man of facts is amere container.His mind is a 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