Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the lear...ning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejud...ice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments t...hat pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise ... s...pecialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did i...t become so easy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 spee...ch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »