There Is No Real Teacher

[a]ny Notion Of The Serious Life Of Leisure, As Well As Men's Taste And Capacity To Live It, Had Disappeared. Leisure Became Entertainment.

The Students [of The 60's] Substituted Conspicuous Compassion For Their Parents' Conspicuous Consumption.

All Literature Up To Today Is Sexist. The Muses Never Sang To The Poets About Liberated Women. It's The Same Old Chanson From The Bible And Homer Through Joyce And Proust.

Human Nature Must Not Be Altered In Order To Have A Problem-free World. Man Is Not Just A Problem-solving Being, As Behaviorists Would Wish Us To Believe, But A Problem-recognizing And -accepting Being.

Education Is Not The Taming Or Domestication Of The Soul's Raw Passions - Not Suppressing Them Or Excising Them, Which Would Deprive The Soul Of Its Energy - But Forming And Informing Them As Art.