Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students See this book on 0 5 Check out this book.
Plato's Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete See this book on 0 5 Check out this book.
Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre (Agora Editions) See this book on 0 5 Check out this book.
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. Allan Bloom Quote More Allan Bloom Quotes 0 3
