Stefan Szczelkun Quotes & Sayings

Because glamour mythically opposes death and decay its ideal model of perfection is youth. The features of youth dictate many of the facets of glamour's criteria. Small snub noses, fair hair, smooth featureless skin, innocence, Picturing youth as a target of sexual lust inevitably encourages the sexual abuse of children. — Stefan Szczelkun

The radical implication of the expansion of higher education has been disguised by a myth which dubs all educated working class people as middle class. By definition working class people are not intelligent, so if you've got a degree you must be middle class. This nonsense is reinforced by the fact that acedemic traditions are laden with class assumptions and are presented in upper class styles even in the Polytechnics. — Stefan Szczelkun

Real life is pockmarked and frail and deeply satisfying. The media image of life is sanitised and glossy and dissappointing. — Stefan Szczelkun

It is a supremacist assumption that one culture can be compared as better or worse than another. — Stefan Szczelkun

Failure is an unavoidable part of learning new responses. — Stefan Szczelkun