Education Quotes by Camille Paglia

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

— Camille Paglia

Teaching is a performance art.

— Camille Paglia

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

— Camille Paglia

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

— Camille Paglia

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

— Camille Paglia

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

— Camille Paglia

The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

— Camille Paglia

Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.

— Camille Paglia

My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the…

— Camille Paglia

Back in the 1960s , I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur…

— Camille Paglia

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Camille Paglia

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning.…

— Camille Paglia

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a…

— Camille Paglia

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the…

— Camille Paglia

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a…

— Camille Paglia

We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of…

— Camille Paglia

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce…

— Camille Paglia

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but…

— Camille Paglia

Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art…

— Camille Paglia

Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas…

— Camille Paglia

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with…

— Camille Paglia

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think…

— Camille Paglia

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware…

— Camille Paglia

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal…

— Camille Paglia