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Matador Manuel Benítez Pérez aka “El Cordobes” by Lucien Clergue
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“There are many people who think they want to be matadors, only to find themselves in the ring with two thousand pounds of bull bearing down on them, and then discover that what they really wanted was to wear tight pants and hear the crowd roar”
-Jerry Farber
I wonder how today's students would react to this title?
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“There are many people who think they want to be matadors, only to find themselves in the ring with two thousand pounds of bull bearing down on them, and then discover that what they really wanted was to wear tight pants and hear the crowd roar”
-Jerry Farber
the student as nigger (1970 ed.)
lol there’s nothing we can’t appropriate
The power that students have is simply the power not to be students, to refuse a bad bargain, as workers have frequently done--to say "no." If students have power, it is because they have something society needs very badly. Student power is made possible by the dying society's need to remain alive--to preserve itself through its children. Think how our institutions feed On the unformed future. Think even how individuals-- those aging businessmen on a college board of trustees --clutch at immortality by putting their trip on the young. Society needs students to retain its identity; they are the only future it has. For this reason, students can demand freedom from exploitation and can get that freedom. They can insist that the continuity they provide society be one that is achieved through rebirth rather than through petrification.
Jerry Farber, The Student as Nigger
It would be well if we stopped lying to ourselves about what compulsory schooling does for our children. It temporarily imprisons them; it standardizes them; it intimidates them. If that's what we want, we should admit it.
Jerry Farber, The Student as Nigger
Drugs, by the way, have some relationship both to school and to the increase in leisure time. A growing number of people have found that smoking a little weed helps them to appreciate the possibilities of unstructured, uninstitutionalized time. Acid and the other psychedelic drugs typically open up possibilities beyond school and beyond the job (dropping out is always dropping in to something else). The educational reform movement probably owes a good deal to students and teachers whose drug experiences have made them impatient with the miserable use that schools make of their time.
Jerry Farber, The Student as Nigger
