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  • Do students come to school seeking wisdom?

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 8 20:56:27 2020
    According to this:

    - Bloom notes that pop music gives modern students a sense of rebellion and political sophistication when in fact they are being manipulated by corporations. He sees this as a symptom of the closing of their minds—students no longer come to school
    seeking wisdom.

    https://www.supersummary.com/the-closing-of-the-american-mind/summary/

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  • From Ed Cryer@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Wed Dec 9 11:31:40 2020
    gggg gggg wrote:
    According to this:

    - Bloom notes that pop music gives modern students a sense of rebellion and political sophistication when in fact they are being manipulated by corporations. He sees this as a symptom of the closing of their minds—students no longer come to school
    seeking wisdom.

    https://www.supersummary.com/the-closing-of-the-american-mind/summary/


    "Ambition, he argues, has replaced any search for truth."

    This is exactly the same thing that Plato militated against in the
    relativism of his own day, 2,500 years ago: sophists who taught both
    sides of an argument, selling rhetoric instead of understanding.

    Ed

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Ed Cryer on Wed Dec 9 12:50:53 2020
    On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 1:32:08 AM UTC-10, Ed Cryer wrote:
    gggg gggg wrote:
    According to this:

    - Bloom notes that pop music gives modern students a sense of rebellion and political sophistication when in fact they are being manipulated by corporations. He sees this as a symptom of the closing of their minds—students no longer come to school
    seeking wisdom.

    https://www.supersummary.com/the-closing-of-the-american-mind/summary/

    "Ambition, he argues, has replaced any search for truth."

    This is exactly the same thing that Plato militated against in the relativism of his own day, 2,500 years ago: sophists who taught both
    sides of an argument, selling rhetoric instead of understanding.

    Ed

    (TV programs that mention Bloom's book):

    https://www.c-span.org/search/basic/?query=%22allan+bloom%22

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