Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan BloomThe facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
Allan BloomEducation is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.
Allan BloomThe students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.
Allan Bloom