"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 Bloom
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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
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"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."
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