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Our society cannot have it both ways: to maintain a conformist and ignoble system, and to have skillful and spirited men to man that system with.

— Paul Goodman

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Perhaps the social message has been communicated clearly to the young men and is unacceptable.

Growing Up Absurd (1956)

It is desperately hard these days for an average child to grow up to be a man, for our present organized system does not want men. They are not safe.

Growing Up Absurd (1956)

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.

Growing Up Absurd (1956)

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

Growing Up Absurd (1956)

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

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