# Quote — Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture

> The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow “expertise” and “theoretical sophistication” (a preposterous term) for breadth and depth of learning in the world history of art and thought. … Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion. This is one of the primary reasons for the dullness and ineptitude of so much twentieth-criticism, as compared to nineteenth-century belles-lettres.

- Author: [Camille Paglia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia.md)
- Book: [Sex, Art, and American Culture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia/sex-art-and-american-culture.md)
- Page: 208
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia#Junk_Bonds_and_Corporate_Raiders_:_Academe_in_the_Hour_of_the_Wolf) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia/sex-art-and-american-culture/the-number-one

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> I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

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p. 244 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia/sex-art-and-american-culture/great-women-scholars.md)