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The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
By Allan Bloom
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10 minute read
Published Apr 3, 2012
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
- • What you'll learn
- 1 American students are extremely diverse in all respects except one.
- 2 Prejudice is not a bad thing—necessarily.
- 3 The change in how we talk about good and evil is the biggest cultural shift since Christianity replaced Greco-Roman paganism.
- 4 Keeping the Great Books in universities is the best way to resist the closing of the American mind.
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