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Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1912 - 2001?)    

Edgar was an educator, education critic, and sociologist less famous than he should be, perhaps because he had abandoned the US in 1970 for the relative obscurity of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Edgar loved smart young people, but his affections had always been platonic. Friedenberg became professor of education and sociology at State University of New York, Buffalo. His education theories went against the grain of the emerging Dewey-inspired view that education's purpose was to prepare students for the benefit of society. He contributed to understanding of the adolescents of the sixties, and promoted the already-fading virtues of competency, of facts as opposed to dogma, and of mastery of subjects - a creed of excellence.
Author of "The Vanishing Adolescent" (1959), "Coming of Age in America: Growth and Acquiescence" (1965), and other studies of American society. "Screw Your Courage" is his autobiography - though he said it wasn't really: he preferred to call it a study in marginality with a sample of one.


대부분의 사람들은 그 폭력이 합법적인 기구에 의해 영속화되어 있다면 이를 수용할뿐만 아니라, 어떤 특정인들에게 가해지는 폭력을 그 누가 행사하던 간에 본질적으로 합법적인 것으로 간주한다