Students Quotes by Camille Paglia

11 Students quotes by Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia’s eleven brief comments on students fuse cultural criticism with observations about learning environments. They provoke thought on how education shapes—and is shaped by—broader cultural currents.

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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League…

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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be…

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

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Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting…

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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've…

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I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's…

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If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow…

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The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"…

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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design…

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

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Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American…

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I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's…

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My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

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In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…

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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s…

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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and…

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