When The Intellect Be Targets Of Prejudice - Alan Bloom Of Educational Democracy Thought Of Revelation

Allan Bloom's proposals on university education mostly focus on his classical books, including "the Closing of the American Mind" and "Giant and Dwarf". Especially, in the book" the Closing of the American Mind", Bloom opens out his discernment to all kinds of variety of the world, and hereby, Bloom devises the value judgment of higher education.Bloom's view on university education is not kitsch. American kindly accept the values of relativism and egalitarianism momentously, American university expand natural science in a big way, so many humanistic professor lost the spiritual beliefs, under these circumstances, Bloom regards the critique on modern democracy as the argument, Bloom expresses his educational points of university:university must offer the non-democracy experience, and university should be the developing world's "gadfly". Bloom figures that university mast have ample discretion, it can make rational criticism and necessary negation in response to egalitarianism. University should find out the association between relativism and undergraduate moral crisis.University should deal with the prejudice which is from "domineering democracy" rapidly and calmly, and should not make itself adapt to this power flow.University also should have its own way to realize the spirit perfect, it can open up a security way for reason and make up the vacancy of spirit world through the liberal education,especially the rereading of the classics.We think that, Bloom's ideas on university education have some value which crosses time and space for Chinese university. There are three aspects to show this value at least:the first one, it is necessary for Chinese university to think its existingmission and function, whether university make itself satisfy all kinds of social needs like other social institution,or like bloom'says being the "gadfly" to help the world developing ly and lastingly. The second one, how to Chinese university react to relativism and multi-culture which originated from the transformation of politics, economy, and culture. Whether University chooses to adapt to the fact passively, or like Bloom's opinion, build the rational cornerstone to prevent the prejudice. The third one, how to treat the tradition and classical. Whether university is far from tradition and looking through sometimes, or like bloom's thought, build one "classical" way belongs university, mining the spirit power in the classics.Allan Bloom's spirit is one modern Socrates spirit, his university value can ibesummarized in to one Socrates value. Socrates told us that, we should insist on the rational spirit when all kinds of prejudice coming. Bloom tells us that, our university can not forget the original mission when prejudice comes, no matter what time, use reason to overcome the bias, no matter the bias belongs to university or in the developing course of society, and even it is from "ration"...