Education is the movement from darkness to light.
From Allan Bloom
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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 people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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.
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
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.
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