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

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. – Allan Bloom

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parenting
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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. – Allan Bloom

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Culture
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? – Allan Bloom

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Other Quotes from
Back to School
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm

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Back to School

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. – Al McGuire

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Back to School

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. – Doug Larson

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Back to School

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. – Robert Gallagher

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Back to School

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