Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said in an interview that Bloom's book was part of a larger trend toward blaming higher education for national ills. "America has a peculiar penchant--when people are troubled by the way society is going, they blame education," he said...
...page work, Bloom charged that universities had left their students without any moral rudders or appreciation for the fundamentals of Western thought...
...took issue with Bloom. In a wide-ranging critique last week, the president attacked what he said was Bloom's narrow conception of what should be taught in American universities...
...Bloom wrongly advocates a return to an illusory "golden age" of higher learning to replace what the professor perceives as current decadence, Bok said...
...interview yesterday, Bloom, a classicist and philosopher, defended his work. While he said he wasn't surprised by Bok's assessment of the book, Bloom challenged the president and other university administrators to give an accounting of the moral education students are receiving...