"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
-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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"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."
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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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"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."
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"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
-Ambrose Bierce
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