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 ...

This year marks Aspen Country Day School’s 50th year. My tenure there spanned 13 of the school’s early years. My memory connects the school with Mortimer Adler, an important post-Paepcke contributor ...

For all his reputation as an elitist, Mortimer J. Adler argued vehemently for the democratization of American schools. The story goes that once, at a dinner party, the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler ...

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 ...

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 ...

What kills wonder is habituated boredom; what grows it is inspired practice. In his classic 1940 tome entitled How to Read a Book, the philosopher-educator Mortimer Adler delivered what has become, ...

Philosopher Mortimer Adler consistently admitted that the idea was “a sort of megalomania with me”: he had long wanted to set up a staff of scholars whose one job would be to discuss and analyze the ...

Mortimer J. Adler, the iconoclastic encyclopedist and progenitor of the “Great Books” collection of notable writers and thinkers, died Thursday at his home in San Mateo. He was 98. The former longtime ...

“The architect of the Great Books, Mortimer Adler, moved beyond big ideas to the mysteries of faith.” Philosopher and editor Mortimer J. Adler died Thursday night at the age of 98. As we noted in the ...

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