Noted Alumni, Faculty, and Current Students
- Since its founding 92 years ago, The New School has graduated hundreds of notable alumni, most of whom excelled in creative fields. Among distinguished graduates are Woody Allen, James Baldwin, Peter L. Berger, President Shimon Peres, Donna Karan, Madeleine L'Engle, Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur, Jake Shears, Sufjan Stevens, Jean L. Cohen, Bradley Cooper, Tony Curtis, Ani DiFranco, Lorraine Hansberry, Agnes Heller, business executive Stewart Krentzman, opera stars Danielle de Niese and Yonghoon Lee, Tatiana Santo Domingo, Jonah Hill, fashion designers Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs, Jack Kerouac, Will Wright, Thomas Luckmann, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Norman Rockwell, Tennessee Williams and Brian Willison.
- Past distinguished faculty have included Woody Allen, W. H. Auden, W. E. B. DuBois, Robert Frost, Martha Graham, Saul K. Padover, Leo Strauss, Eric Hobsbawm, Hannah Arendt, Erich Fromm and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Paul Dano and Stacy Farber are current students at The New School.
- According to the university's "Quick Facts" page, New School has a living alumni pool of over 56,000 and graduates live in 112 different countries.
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“She noted that marriage is a very serious thing. I answered that no, it is not.... She just wanted to know if I would have accepted the same proposal from another woman with whom I would have had a relationship like ours. I said, “Of course”.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“This is no argument against teaching manners to the young. On the contrary, it is a fine old tradition that ought to be resurrected from its current mothballs and put to work...In fact, children are much more comfortable when they know the guide rules for handling the social amenities. It’s no more fun for a child to be introduced to a strange adult and have no idea what to say or do than it is for a grownup to go to a formal dinner and have no idea what fork to use.”
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