Quote by Allan Bloom
Education is the movement from darkness to light. - Allan Bloom

Education is the movement from darkness to light. – Allan Bloom

Other quotes by 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. – Allan Bloom

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Failure
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Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as mens taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment. – Allan Bloom

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Laziness
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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. – Allan Bloom

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Education
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Other Quotes from
Back to School
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. – Chinese Proverb

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Back to School

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Back to School

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. – Margaret Laurence

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Back to School

When the student is ready, the master appears. – Buddhist Proverb

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Back to School

Random Quotes

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics. – Michael Pollan

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Politics

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Feminism

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them. – Judith Jamison

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Beauty

When one reads a poet in January, it is as lovely as when one goes to walk in June. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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January