“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.”

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

Allan Bloom
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“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”

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

Allan Bloom
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“The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.”

Allan Bloom
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