In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Camille PagliaRead
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.
Interpretation
Promoting art history in schools is essential for understanding and supporting the arts, even during economic downturns.
Camille Paglia emphasizes the importance of introducing art history into primary education and argues that funding for the arts is crucial despite economic challenges. She believes that understanding and appreciation of art are vital for a well-rounded education and should be maintained at all levels of government, highlighting the arts' role in culture and society.
In practice
In a school board meeting discussing curriculum changes.
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.