“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
Źródło: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
Mortimer Jerome Adler – amerykański filozof.
Wraz z Maxem Weismannem założył Center for the Study of The Great Ideas, redaktor naczelny "Philosophy is Everybody's Business". Założyciel Institute for Philosophical Research. Redaktor naczelny Encyclopaedia Britannica oraz "Great Books of the Western World", "The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas" i "The Great Ideas Today", Współtwórca The Aspen Institute, wykładowca Columbia University oraz University of Chicago. Autor Paideia Project – planu gruntownej reformy szkolnictwa publicznego w duchu liberal education. Reprezentował nurt arystotelesowsko-tomistyczny.
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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
Źródło: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
Źródło: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 316
Źródło: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
Źródło: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Źródło: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Źródło: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”
Źródło: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.”
Źródło: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Źródło: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
Źródło: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
Źródło: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.”
Źródło: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 315
Źródło: Joseph Allen (1979). The Leisure alternatives catalog: food for mind & body. p. 134
“You can't be a philosopher and an activist. If you do, you get all mixed up.”
Źródło: F.N. D'Alession. " Philosopher, reformer Mortimer Adler, father of 'Great Books' program, dies at 98 http://lubbockonline.com/stories/062901/upd_075-4286.shtml#.VVHE0_ntmko." at lubbockonline.com, June 29, 2001.
Źródło: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 316
“The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.”
Źródło: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
Źródło: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 312
Źródło: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 314
Źródło: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 314
Źródło: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 314
Źródło: F.N. D'Alession. " Philosopher, reformer Mortimer Adler, father of 'Great Books' program, dies at 98 http://lubbockonline.com/stories/062901/upd_075-4286.shtml#.VVHE0_ntmko." at lubbockonline.com, June 29, 2001.
Źródło: Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling (1977), p. 255