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Mortimer J. Adler

Monday, February 24, 2014

Morgan Foster

EDU 202

What is Adler's Philosophy of Education?

A Brief History

Perennialism:

  • Recurring Truth

(The Great Ideas)

  • Great Books
  • Syntopicon
  • Rationnality

From Failure to Philosophy

Adler and Education

  • Adler, Mortimer, and Max Weismann. Center for the Study of The Great Ideas. Not-for-profit. Web. http://www.thegreatideas.org/index.html.

  • Grimes, William. "Mortimer Adler, 98, Dies; Helped Create Study of Classics." The New York Times. The New York Times, 28 June 2001. Web. 21 Feb. 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/nyregion/mortimer-adler-98-dies-helped-create-study-of-classics.html.

  • "How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone Book) [Paperback]." How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone Book): Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren: 9780671212094: Amazon.com: Books. Amazon, n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2014. http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Intelligent-Touchstone/dp/0671212095/ref%3Dsr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393025677&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+read+a+book.

  • Karen R. Zittleman. "Chapter 6 Philosophy of Education." Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education. By David M. Sadker. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 181-213. Print.

  • “Mortimer J. Adler." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 Feb. 2014. Web. 21 Feb. 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_J._Adler.

The Paideia Project:

  • Born: 1902

Died: 2001

  • A Write, philosopher, and educator from New York

  • High school and college dropout

  • Became a psychology instructor and then earned a doctorate
  • For public schools

  • "Liberal Education"

  • Humanist Education

  • Socratic Method

The Center for the Study of Great Ideas

  • Awaken from "moral and intellectual" sleep

  • Find answers about
  • "The good life"
  • "Good society"

  • Great Ideas

  • Liberal Education

  • Syntopicon - "subject-matter" index

Philosophy is Everybody's Business

- Mortimer J. Adler

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