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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.

Source: The Closing of the American Mind, pt. 2, Our Ignorance, 1987.
-- Allan Bloom, (Sep 14 1930-1992), US educator, actor; He wrote the best-seller Closing of the American Mind, 1987, a damning critique of U.S. higher education.

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