What Allan Bloom thinks about education
Philosopher and classicist (1930 to 1992) whose The Closing of the American Mind (1987) argued that relativism and the decline of great books had impoverished American students and higher education.
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1 dated position, c. 1987, in their own words. Our reading of what Allan Bloom has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsEducation is the movement from darkness to light.
↗The Closing of the American Mind (Simon and Schuster, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book