Key Insights From:
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
By Allan Bloom
Key Insights From:
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
By Allan Bloom
What You'll Learn:
Originally written in 1987, political philosopher Allan Bloom goes after academic culture and its impact on students and society in a hard-hitting polemic. He challenges the popular assumptions about tolerance and how they’ve ironically closed us off from learning and true open-mindedness.
Key Insights:
- American students are extremely diverse in all respects except one.
- Prejudice is not a bad thing—necessarily.
- The change in how we talk about good and evil is the biggest cultural shift since Christianity replaced Greco-Roman paganism.
- Keeping the Great Books in universities is the best way to resist the closing of the American mind.
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