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Allan Bloom

Main article: Allan Bloom

Date: 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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    “As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.”
    —Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

    “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)

    “Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise ... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.”
    —Allan Bloom (1930–1992)