Quote by Allan Bloom
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration

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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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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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. – Allan Bloom

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Prejudice
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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. – Allan Bloom

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teacher
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To bring up a child in the way he should go — travel that way yourself. – Josh Billings

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A mother who is really a mother is never free. – Honore de Balzac

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Im trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. – Eddie Vedder

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders. – English Proverb

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Science is global. Einsteins equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races. – Abdul Kalam

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If you cant sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. Its the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. – Dale Carnegie

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I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves. – Major Taylor

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