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It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes someth...

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Education is a natural community function and occurs inevitably, since the young grow up on the old,...

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Compulsory Mis-education/The Community of Scholars

These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Beat Generation, have often expressed themsel...

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Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existe...

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Growing Up Absurd

In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their ...

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Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.

My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffecte...

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Growing Up Absurd

The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"...

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Growing Up Absurd

Positively, the delinquent behavior seems to speak clearly enough. It asks for what we can’t give, b...

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Growing Up Absurd

Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Few great men could pass personnel.

Few great men could pass personnel.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one ...

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The family is the American fascism.

Few great men could pass Personnel.

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself things like clean air green grass ...

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No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty ...

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Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades ...

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Paul Goodman

Novelist

Born: 1911-09-09

Died: 1972-08-02

Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was an American writer, poet, public intellectual. He is mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd and as an activist on the pacifist Left.More