"The way I knew I was right about something was the kids got angry. That's very important: you touch that anger."
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Quotes by Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom was a renowned American philosopher, classicist, and educator born on September 14, 1930, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Best known for his influential work, "The Closing of the American Mind," published in 1987, Bloom critiqued the state of higher education and the cultural shifts in American society. A passionate advocate for the Great Books and the Socratic method, Bloom's ideas continue to resonate, prompting deep reflections on education, freedom, and the pursuit of truth, solidifying his legacy as a pivotal figure in contemporary thought.
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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
"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"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
"I never considered myself a writer. I'm a teacher. In a way, I feel kind of... kind of guilty for all the people who are writers who hope to be on the best-seller list someday, who live for that and don't get it, and it came to me as a kind of free gift, like God coming to Abraham and announcing, 'I've chosen you!'"
Allan Bloom
"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