Adler passionately believes that most people, even those with college degrees, have not really acquired the skills necessary to explore the world of ideas. To document his argument that people are not ...
Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler of the University of Chicago, 47, is a bounding dynamo of a man who is apt to have, “in my more paranoiac moments,” rather extravagant visions. “Imagine Carnegie Hall,” ...
Mortimer J. Adler, 98, a philosopher and education reformer who sought to bring intellectualism to the general public with the Great Books program, his own best-selling books and the Encyclopaedia ...
Two Latin teachers* recently agreed that the event which would give them most pleasure and at the same time mightily advance the cause of true education would be to blow up Teachers College at ...
On the March 13, 1970, episode of Firing Line, WFB talks with Professor Mortimer Adler about the great ideas that should animate education and the effect of graduate schools on undergraduate learning.
Adler was a venerated philosopher, even though his staunch defense of the Western tradition and universal values brought him into conflict with a later generation of activists and politically correct ...
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In the midst of the Roaring Twenties, hundreds of New York City’s poorest pulled up seats at free seminars every week to discuss Descartes and Shakespeare. At these gatherings, one of their teachers, ...