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Education is the movement from darkness to light.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: Darkness Education Light Movement

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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

Topics: Completion Education Enable Find Learning Might Must Our Reconstruct Seek Students Them Times Try Whatever Would Yearn

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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

Topics: Aspiration Children Competence Fathers Highest Idea Imagine Lost Might Mothers Specialized Success Them Wise

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Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: Belief Cannot Establish Illusion Most Reason Values

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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: Age Function Important Itself Most Protect Reason The Most Important University

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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

Topics: Acts Believe Does Existence Magic Practice Real Soul Speech Teacher Through Who

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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 because he knows others worthy of consideration.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: Able Answers Because Consideration Easy Educated He Knows Obstinate Others Person Preferred Resist Who Worthy

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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

Topics: Absolutely Almost Believes Certain Entering Every He One Thing Professor Relative Says Student Thing Truth Truth Is University

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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: About Addiction Generation More Music Nothing Singular Than This Generation

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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: Authentic Deeds Form Great Life Lived People Produces Those Thoughts Values Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 14th, 1930

Died: October 7th, 1992

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