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Education Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“Teaching is a performance art.”
Camille Paglia
Teaching
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Art
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Performance
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Education
,
Expression
2.
“Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.”
Camille Paglia
Careers
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Gender
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Education
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Equality
,
Family
3.
“Women’s studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.”
Camille Paglia
Feminism
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Education
,
Society
,
Gender
,
Politics
4.
“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
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Education
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Language
,
Poetry
,
School
5.
“Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Past
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Future
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Society
,
Knowledge
6.
“There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It’s elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Politics
,
Society
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Elitism
,
Ideology
7.
“My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.”
Camille Paglia
Family
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Immigrants
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Education
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History
,
Work
8.
“Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.”
Camille Paglia
Education
,
School
,
Gender
,
Childhood
,
Energy
9.
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Universities
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Family
,
Society
,
Academia
10.
“In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.”
Camille Paglia
Art
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Materialism
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Education
,
Politics
,
Society
11.
“I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.”
Camille Paglia
Art
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Education
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Funding
,
Culture
,
Society
12.
“I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being molded by the computer.”
Camille Paglia
Technology
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Web
,
Education
,
Children
,
Society
13.
“I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott’s collected essays for their classes.”
Camille Paglia
Academia
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Criticism
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Essays
,
Literature
,
Education
14.
“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 going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.”
Camille Paglia
Media
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Culture
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Language
,
Society
,
Education
15.
“We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.”
Camille Paglia
Art
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Gender
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Education
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Greatness
,
Culture
16.
“I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Teaching
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History
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Knowledge
,
Perspective
17.
“I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today’s women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.”
Camille Paglia
Feminism
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Role Models
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Education
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Gender
,
Oppression
18.
“The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Reform
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Society
,
Work
,
Culture
19.
“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
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Education
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Practice
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Disconnection
,
Schools
20.
“Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Contemporary
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Society
,
Tradition
,
Change
21.
“Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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1960s
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College
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History
,
Value
22.
“I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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America
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Politics
,
Society
,
Ideology
23.
“Overconcentration on any one point is distortion.”
Camille Paglia
Philosophy
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Criticism
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Focus
,
Education
,
Balance
24.
“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 going to be a slow debasement of language, and that’s what I think we’re fighting.”
Camille Paglia
Media
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Language
,
Culture
,
Education
,
Society
25.
“There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.”
Camille Paglia
Humanities
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Art
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Philosophy
,
Education
,
Expertise
26.
“Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.”
Camille Paglia
Lacan
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Criticism
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Philosophy
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Education
,
Art
27.
“If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Women’s Rights
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Colleges
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Flexibility
,
Family
28.
“Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Students
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Web
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Information
,
Knowledge
29.
“If people want to be better writers, they can’t just read the blogs! You’ve got to look at something that’s outside this rushing world of evanescent words.”
Camille Paglia
Writing
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Blogs
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Literature
,
Education
,
Creativity
30.
“Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.”
Camille Paglia
Education
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Universities
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Careerism
,
Society
,
Criticism
31.
“In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.”
Camille Paglia
Intelligence
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Success
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Failure
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IQ
,
Education
32.
“Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.”
Camille Paglia
Intellectualism
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America
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Education
,
Culture
,
Society
33.
“The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.”
John D. Rockefeller
Education
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Children
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Learning
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Progress
,
Improvement
34.
“I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.”
John D. Rockefeller
Education
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Career
,
Learning
,
Work
,
Success
35.
“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”
Andrew Carnegie
Democracy
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Knowledge
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Education
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Society
,
Equality
36.
“Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.”
Andrew Carnegie
Education
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Industry
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Business
,
Knowledge
,
Perspective
37.
“I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.”
Andrew Carnegie
Education
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Knowledge
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Philanthropy
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Opportunity
,
Self-Help
38.
“If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.”
Andrew Carnegie
Education
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Knowledge
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Community
,
Learning
,
Libraries
39.
“It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.”
Andrew Carnegie
Education
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Philanthropy
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Wealth
,
Knowledge
,
Growth
40.
“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never-failing spring in the desert.”
Andrew Carnegie
Education
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Knowledge
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Community
,
Learning
,
Libraries
41.
“When I was getting my education, I fell in love with the writings of Peter Drucker. He was my hero. I had a naive belief that when I became a manager, it was going to be like Peter Drucker's books. That is, I was going to be the effective executive. I was going to talk to people about their goals. I was going to help them actualize.”
Guy Kawasaki
Leadership
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Management
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Education
,
Inspiration
,
Reality
42.
“A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same.”
Guy Kawasaki
Education
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Hard Work
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Parenting
,
Success
,
Dedication
43.
“What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'”
Guy Kawasaki
Education
,
Reality
,
Experience
,
Learning
,
Perspective
44.
“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.”
Guy Kawasaki
Teachers
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Education
,
Respect
,
Influence
,
Learning
45.
“In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.”
Steven Wright
Education
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Language
,
Crime
,
Humor
,
Perspective
46.
“When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.”
Steven Wright
Education
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Irony
,
Logic
,
Humor
,
Learning
47.
“If your parents are not rich, but you got a good education, be grateful for their sacrifices.”
Ankur Warikoo
Gratitude
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Education
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Parents
,
Sacrifice
,
Appreciation
48.
“Attitude >> Experience >> Education The only hiring principle I know of.”
Ankur Warikoo
Attitude
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Hiring
,
Experience
,
Education
,
Priority
49.
“Once we are out of school and college we spend the rest of our lives trying to undo what school and college did to us.”
Ankur Warikoo
Education
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Unlearning
,
Growth
,
Conditioning
,
Freedom
50.
“The evidence shows that investing in women and girls delivers major benefits for society. An educated woman has healthier children. She is more likely to send them to school. She earns more and invests what she earns in her family.”
Jimmy Carter
Women
,
Education
,
Society
,
Benefits
,
Family
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