Allan Bloom

“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”

“Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.”

“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.”

“The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.”

“The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.”

“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.”