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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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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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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He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief. – Yiddish Proverb

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Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. – Jennifer Aniston

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For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting experts that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer. – Bob Barr

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You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship. – Connie Sellecca

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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. – Paul Tillich

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We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness. – St. Catherine of Genoa