Quote by Allan Bloom
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in stude

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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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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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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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. – John F. Kennedy

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Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bushs austere budget for the next fiscal year. – Arlen Specter

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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. – Horace Mann

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Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you dont. – Pete Seeger

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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. – Abraham Lincoln

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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Shadows sometimes people dont see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. – David Hockney

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I havent left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking Im incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth. – Josh Radnor

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