The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.
Allan BloomThe sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.
Allan BloomThere is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.
Allan BloomNever did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.
Allan Bloom