- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never considered myself a writer. I'm a teacher. In a way, I feel kind of... kind of guilty for all the people who are writers who hope to be on the best-seller list someday, who live for that and don't get it, and it came to me as a kind of free gift, like God coming to Abraham and announcing, 'I've chosen you!'
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I knew I was right about something was the kids got angry. That's very important: you touch that anger.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020