"Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top."

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Source : "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.

Charles A. Murray

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“In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, not only those which we inherit from the past, but equally those which are imposed on people in the name of the future.”
“People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.”
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”
“Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.”
“The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.”
“Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.”
“Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.”
“Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.”

Source : "Jeffrey Deitch’s Party House" by Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. April 20, 2012.

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