“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 by their participation in the discussion.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

Source: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 316

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American philosopher and educator 1902–2001

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