"I view classroom teaching as a discipline and duty, a responsibility to convey the legacy of the past to the next generation."

"As I strictly monitor attendance and enforce order, I sometimes ruefully feel like a teaching nun from the over-regulated era of my upstate New York youth! I have a powerful sense of the descent of modern education from the medieval monasteries and cathedrals.... My faith in that nurturing continuity is certainly diametrically opposed to the cynically subversive approach of today's postmodernist theorists, who see history as a false or repressive narrative operating on disconnected fragments."

Says Camille Paglia, and no, it's not cynical to call other people cynical. Is it?

Paglia says "American academics... are pitifully trapped in a sterile career system that has become paralyzed by political correctness."  She's also bothered by the way college campuses these days are "hysterically portrayed as rape extravaganzas where women are helpless fluffs with no control over their own choices and behavior." Colleges ought to stop "demeaning and infantilizing" students, and "cease their tyrannical surveillance of students' social lives." She'd like to stop protecting and patronizing women and get back to the old "pro-sex," "street-smart" version of feminism.