Both sides Quote by Catherine Camus

[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience about…

— Catherine Camus

There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism.

— Catherine Camus

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social…

— Paulo Freire

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not…

— Aberjhani

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called…

— Richard Hofstadter

“My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that,…

— Booker T. Washington

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

— Catherine Camus

“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted, standardized, and…

— Rajinder Jhol

“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps…

— Christopher Lasch

So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The Rebel, in…

— Catherine Camus

It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that…

— Matthew Arnold

“Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a…

— Neil Postman, The End of Education