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.

Quote by Allan Bloom

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

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

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a...

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a...

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment...

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment...

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

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

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only...

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only...

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of...

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of...

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

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

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal...

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

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

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment...

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment...

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for...

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for...

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only...

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only...

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the...

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the...

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

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

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred...

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred...

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a...

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a...

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the...

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the...

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one...

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one...