4 Allan Bloom Quotes on Education

Allan Bloom quotes on education

1. 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.

2. Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

4. 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.

5. 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.