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.

Quote by Allan Bloom

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he...

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he...