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

Other quotes by Allan Bloom

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

Category:
Culture
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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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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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parenting
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If youre asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. – Bruce Jenner

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parenting

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a childs success is the positive involvement of parents. – Jane D. Hull

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parenting

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you dont want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but its also a parents worst nightmare: That they wont need you. Its like the real tragedy of parenting. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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parenting

Its frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You cant assume the responsibility for everything you do –or dont do. – Simone de Beauvoir

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parenting

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A brave arm makes a short sword long. – Author Unknown

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I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives. – Andrew Shue

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amazing

It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. – Robin G. Collingwood

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Shame