Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.Allan Bloom
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
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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.
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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
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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.
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