ON JUNE 28, MORTIMER J. ADLER, propagandist for the reading of great books, indexer extraordinaire, and the world’s highest-salaried philosopher, died at the age of ninety-eight. I worked for Mortimer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT is characteristic of our lively American culture at the present time that one of the biggest publishing ventures of recent years — a twomillion-dollar enterprise — should be backed by (1) a senator ...

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 ...

Adler, Mortimer J. (Mort), age 86, of Boca Raton, FL passed away on April 25, 2005. Devoted Loving Husband to Clair for 67 years. Adored Father of Harriet Thomas & Bob Adler. Proud & Loving Grand ...

The Smithsonian Institution's Marc Pachter interviews Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, professor, founder of the Great Books Foundation, as part of the education series, Living Self-Portraits, at the ...

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