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.

Quote by Allan Bloom

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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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...

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might...

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might...

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...

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every...

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every...

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of...

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of...

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...

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The...

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering...

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering...