Allan Bloom
Main article: Allan BloomDate: 1930-1992
Bloom, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, argued for a traditional Great Books-based liberal education in his lengthy essay The Closing of the American Mind.
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“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.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)
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