An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. — Allan Bloom Copy Share
Shakespeare's naturalness is attested to by the strange fact that he is the only classical author who remains popular. The critical termites are massed… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. — Allan Bloom Copy Share
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his practice of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence… — Allan Bloom Copy Share
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