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• The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but…
• Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
• Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it…
• 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 to be…
• 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 the here…
• We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop…
• Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it…
• Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to…
• 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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