Allan Bloom Quotes about Education

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Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Inspirational, Education, Light

Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

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Inspiring, Education, Philosophy

Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

Allan Bloom

Education, Art, Passion

Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

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Education, Impediments, Seems

Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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

Education, Trying, Might

Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster