"Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man."

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Source : Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.80, New York Review of Books

Paul Goodman

#Giving Up Quotes #Men Quotes #Curriculum Quotes

“Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering through my sheer joy in all that is beautiful, a sense of its creator . . . Only man can be truly ugly, because he has the free will to estrange himself from this song of praise. It often seems that he'll manage to drown out this hymn with his cannon thunder, curses and blasphemy. But during this past spring it has dawned upon me that he won't be able to do this. And so I want to try and throw myself on the side of the victor.”
“[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
“[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).”
“Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.”

Source : Song: The Rule Won't Die, Album: Rule 3:36
“A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.”

Source : "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.
“If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.”
“There's no tiling moral about beauty.”
“When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.”

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