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 BloomThe sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.
Allan BloomWe need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.
Allan BloomThere is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.
Allan Bloom