We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
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The metaphor assumes a clear decline that may not apply to all modern contexts.
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 a…
DePauw University News 'Closing of the American Mind Author Allan Bloom Calls on DePauw Students to Seize 'Charmed Years'. Ubben Lecture Series : 11 September …
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 suc…
The average 'educated' American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at …
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insights and knowledge, painfully extracted from N…