Edgar Friedenberg
Edgar Friedenberg
school matter taught
What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.
people matter too-much
If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.
people matter violence
Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.
accept against authority certain inherently kinds legitimate matter people regard violence
Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetrated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.
decide perhaps rather valuable value
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
evil special purpose
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.
family young
Those who love the young best stay young longer.
technology order moral
Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.
doe world youngsters
In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.
arrogance want kind
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
teenage target communist
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
teenage patterns life-is
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.
class wells confined
The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
education teacher school
The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.