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...moment I heard Camille Paglia say that "poststructuralism is a form of child abuse" during her speech on education reform at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum last Tuesday, I knew I had heard one of several ready-made soundbites that would surely appear in the next morning's paper. Another striking moment came when she said, nonchalantly, that today's Ivy League graduates are nothing more than "little blind gnomes," two generations of students who have been crippled by postmodern professors. Her cause was the preservation of art and facts, as well as the restoration of grandeur to teaching...
...previous speeches in Cambridge, Paglia had specifically attacked Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler and Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature Susan R. Suleiman...
Shifting her focus to the national educationalstage, Paglia also condemned forced bussing andbilingual education, saying her mother never wouldhave learned English without immersion in thelanguage...
While the majority of the audienceenthusiastically applauded Paglia, some studentsattending last night said they found her ideas"silly...
...Paglia's last official Harvard appearance in1994 drew a crowd of protestors. There were noprotests last night