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There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Allan Bloom
Believe, Entering, Students
Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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?

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School, Ignorant, Students
Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

Allan Bloom
Compassion, Parent, Students
"The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, 1987.

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