We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.
Allan BloomStudents 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 BloomThe expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.
Allan BloomAn education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
Allan Bloom