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DePauw University News 'Closing of the American Mind Author Allan Bloom Calls on DePauw Students to Seize 'Charmed Years'. Ubben Lecture Series : 11 September 1987, Greencastle, Indiana. (Accessed 16 May 2007).

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  1. We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop u…
  2. Patner, Andrew. Chicago Sun-Times, 'Allan Bloom, warts and all' 16 April 2000. (Accessed 16 May 2007).
  3. Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that…
  4. West, Thomas G. The Claremont Institute, The Claremont Institute Blog Writings. 'Allan Bloom and America' 1 June 2000. (Accessed 16 May 200…
  5. Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise ... specialize…
  6. Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become …
  7. There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

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