Mortimer Adler

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."

"Center for the Study of the Great Ideas"

"An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture."

"Every seminar should involve at its conclusion the assignment of a short composition in which students would attempt to state how their understanding of the book discussed in the seminar was increased…"

"Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding."

"...an adequate reform of public education in our school system cannot be accomplished by anything like a quick fix. We suspect that anyone who thinks otherwise cannot fully understand the shape of an …"

"Montaigne speaks of an “Abecedarian” ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it. The first is the ignorance of those who, not knowing their A-B-C’s, cannot read at…"

"are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary . The packaging of intellectual positions and views is one of the most active enterprises of some of the best minds of our day. The viewer of telev…"