"An education, other than purely professional or technical,……" — Allan Bloom

"An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment."

— Allan Bloom

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58 Quotes by Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is…
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds…
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How…
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that…
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments…
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired…
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always…
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

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More Education Quotes

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as… — Mary Kay Ash
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe

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