Camille Paglia Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

  Camille Paglia

  School, People, Liberty

• Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

  Camille Paglia

  School, Feminism, Coveting

• I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think it's criminal - child abuse - that they're not told to do this [in school]. Right now it's just sex education and putting condoms on bananas. Girls should be asked to think about what they want in their lives when they're 50, 60 and 70.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Children, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, School, Practice

• I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

  Camille Paglia

  Writing, School, Skills

  "Warrior for the word". Interview with Kerry Lauerman, www.salon.com. April 07, 2005.

• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  Camille Paglia

  School, Men, Yale

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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