Paul Goodman Quotes

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

The family is the American fascism.

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

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

Few great men could pass personnel.

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

All men are creative but few are artists.

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

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

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. Prudence and responsibility are not middle-class virtues but human virtues.

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

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

Few great men could pass Personnel.

Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.