Education is the movement from darkness to light.Closing of the American Mind, p. 265, 2008
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Allan Bloom was an American philosopher, classicist, and academic, best known for his 1987 work "The Closing of the American Mind," which critiqued contemporary higher education and the effects of relativism on American culture. He served as a professor at the University of Chicago and was influential in promoting the study of classical texts and the Socratic method. Bloom's ideas sparked significant debate regarding the role of liberal education in a democratic society.
1930–1992·lived 62 years
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Closing of the American Mind, p. 265, 2008
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 us autonomously to seek that completion.The Closing of the American Mind, p. 25, 1987
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