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

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

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Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provid...

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Love and Friendship

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives i...

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The Closing of the American Mind

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

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The Closing of the American Mind

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the...

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The Closing of the American Mind

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation b...

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The Closing of the American Mind

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful tr...

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The Closing of the American Mind

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

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To de...

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

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

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Education is the movement from darkness to light

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Allan Bloom

Philosopher

Born: 1930-09-14

Died: 1992-10-07

Allan David Bloom (14 September, 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana – 7 October, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American philosopher, essayist and academic. Bloom championed education based on the study of 'Great Books', as did his mentor Leo Strauss. He criticised contemporary American higher education in his 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind, which became a bestseller.More