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.
evil special purpose
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.
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.
real passion people
Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.
believe serious youth
Every major industrial society believes it has a serious youth problem.
believe mean violence
Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.
dream long young
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.
weakness impotence
All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.