Allan Bloom Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• Education is the movement from darkness to light.

  Allan Bloom

  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.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Education, Philosophy

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

• 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.

  Allan Bloom

  Education, Impediments, Seems

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

• The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

  Allan Bloom

  Education, College, Years

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

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