Mortimer J. Adler's Books
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How to Read a BookHow to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to readingRead More
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New York Times, January 30, 2010
...knowledge for its own sake. The earliest exponents of general education — John Erskine, Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling, Mortimer Adler — believed in teaching students the wisdom of the ages to prepare them to confront the pressing issues of the day,...
News Sentinel, November 19, 2009
...there, and it will be relevant and you'll think, “Yes, of course!” Once upon a time Dr. Mortimer Adler from the University of Chicago was the guru of reading. I even learned how to speed read, thanks to him. Foster is a lovely replacement for this...
Slate Magazine, November 18, 2009
...the parallels that exist between great works of literature and everyday life." This is not perhaps what Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren had in mind when devising their Great Books list, but Roger Sterling and Bert Cooper would approve...
Slate Magazine, November 18, 2009
...express the parallels that exist between great works of literature and everyday life.' This is not perhaps what Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren had in mind when devising their Great Books list, but Roger Sterling and Bert Cooper would approve....
Aspen Times, August 23, 2009
...Paepcke was searching for a way to continue the meaningful discussions that had arisen during the Goethe Bicentennial. Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago had been instrumental in the success of the Bicentennial. They were...
Wicked Local Plymouth, July 16, 2009
...Great Books Foundation of Chicago in 1947 by Robert Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, and scholar Mortimer Adler. For information about the Great Books Foundation, visit www.greatbooks.org. Literacy tutor training Become a literacy tutor...
LewRockwell.com, April 20, 2009
...its detriment, has been a rebellion against Aristotle, although he does have champions, e.g. Ayn Rand and Mortimer Adler. Do yourself a favor and become familiar with his works, especially the writings on logic. 3. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: most...
Jerusalem Post, April 10, 2009
...Books seminars are an outgrowth of the Great Books Foundation, established in the 1940s by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler to promote the reading of the classic philosophical and literary texts of the Western tradition which Hutchins and Adler had...
Ad Fontes, March 3, 2010
...One of the most helpful books on reading is Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book . Although there was much I learned from the book one of the things that has stayed with me is that you don...
kendra mccracken, January 29, 2010
...in a different way. When you gather data, you become informed. When you read, you develop wisdom--or, in Mortimer Adler's words, "become enlightened." I have to interject here and share that the word "enlightened" bugs me. To me, in conveys an attitude...
Redeemed Rambling, January 20, 2010
...is wonderful!) I admit that I am not done reading it yet, being at about stage four of Mortimer Adler's method for reading non-fiction. So here goes: Content A Theology of John's Gospel and Letters begins with a detailed historical framework. This...
Terry's thinking!, December 28, 2009
...of contents format, acknowledgments, author bios, bibliography or footnotes. One of the books I have recently reread is Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren’s 1972 version of How to Read a Book . Of course, if you have read this book already, you...
Great Books Blog, December 16, 2009
...part of Britannica’s $1,200.00 set of the Great Books of the Western World . It took Mortimer Adler and a large staff, eight years to produce at a cost of over a million 1940s dollars. Dr. Adler closeted himself, 7 days a week for 26 months just...
Great Books Blog, November 28, 2009
...Classical Education one of the key features of which is the online Socratic classes we offer. As Mortimer Adler once explained: “The Socratic, or dialectical, method is the only way to avoid the substitution of verbal memory for intellectual habit. ...
Newgeography.com - Economic, demographic, and poli, October 10, 2009
...Venetian gondolas, now marks the southern boundary of Hyde Park. The tradition continued with Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler – the latter founder of Encyclopedia Britannica, and both authors of the Great Books model of liberal arts...
The Rehearsal Studio, October 9, 2009
...a story; but this should not be taken as an excuse to remove all responsibility from the storyteller. Mortimer Adler used to write about "active reading" as an imagined conversation between the reader and the author of the book being read. A serial...
TampaBLAB, August 23, 2009
...how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” — Mortimer Adler Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) August Carnival of Children’s Literature Frank McCourt Leave a...
Between Two Worlds, August 4, 2009
...I cannot imagine I am the only reader of this blog who has no reservations about this practice. Mortimer Adler, in his classic How to Read a Book (Simon & Schuster 1972), devotes only a few pages to art of writing in a book (pp. 48—52). Adler...
Scott Cheatham's Weblog, June 2, 2009
...least , I wanted to remind you again of the video series you can pick up on DVD with Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren discussing their classic work: “How To Read A Book”. This was a series of long lost videos that you now can own on DVD that...
Scott Cheatham's Weblog, May 27, 2009
...do this? My personal hero in the reading for growth category is a man by the name of Mortimer Adler . Adler and Charles Van Doren were the authors of the classic work “How to Read a Book” which is still available today. In the book, the authors...
Wikiquote - Recent changes [en], May 21, 2009
...Ansel Adams Charles Francis Adams, Sr. Franklin Pierce Adams James Truslow Adams Percy Addleshaw George Ade Felix Adler Mortimer Adler Adunis Aesop James Agate Grace Aguilar Richard Albrecht Randy Alcorn Louisa May Alcott Henry Mills Alden Shana...
The Upward Call, May 15, 2009
...and most profoundly, how to read productively and for understanding. Years later, when I began homeschooling and read Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book , I heard my history teacher's voice. I am positive he must have read that book. Reading can be many...
Independent Sources, April 30, 2009
...hear Columbia is altering their Core Curriculum replacing selected readings from the Old Testament with Shatnerquake and that Mortimer Adler is rushing out a new edition of The Great Books of the Western World with one whole volume dedicated to ...
Independent Sources, April 30, 2009
...hear Columbia is altering their Core Curriculum replacing selected readings from the Old Testament with Shatnerquake and that Mortimer Adler is rushing out a new edition of The Great Books of the Western World with one whole volume dedicated to ...
Quiddity, April 15, 2009
...is a good introduction to this idea, especially The Poison of Subjectivism) Wendell Berry: Life is a Miracle Mortimer Adler: Ten Philosophical Mistakes (especially chapter five on moral values and part three on human nature) William Shakespeare:...
