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Quote by Allan Bloom
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom

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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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Ignorance & Stupidity
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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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Allan Bloom
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Tradition
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Tradition

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. – Henry David Thoreau

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Tradition

Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell

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Tradition

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. – G. K. Chesterton

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Tradition

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Still, it is customary to keep pupils sitting too long at once. They ought to stand occasionally, or march around the room; and they should be required to exercise a few minutes in the open air, once an hour, at least. – American Annals of Education and Instruction, April 1832

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Sitting

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. – William Ralph Inge (1860-1954)

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God

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. – Aristotle

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Men

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. – Robin Morgan

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Friendship