Allan Bloom Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

  Allan Bloom

  Learning, Cynical, Political

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.56, 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

• 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?

  Allan Bloom

  School, Ignorant, Students

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

• In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.

  Allan Bloom

  Greatness, America, Achievement

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.66, 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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