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“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.”

- Allan Bloom

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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

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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

Source/Notes: The Closing of the American Mind (1987)

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“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”

- Allan Bloom

Source/Notes: Closing of the American Mind (2008 edition), Simon and Schuster - ISBN: 9781439126264

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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

Source/Notes: From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede, pt. 3 - The Closing of the American Mind (1987)

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

- Allan Bloom

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“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

Source/Notes: Introduction - The Closing of the American Mind (1987)

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

- Allan Bloom

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“Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.”

- Allan Bloom

Source/Notes: The Closing of the American Mind (1987)

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“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

Source/Notes: Closing of the American Mind (2008 edition), Simon and Schuster - ISBN: 9781439126264

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“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

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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

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