For those wishing to read to the end of Mortimer Adler’s book (previously discussed here), his main theme is that the power of conceptual human thought is unduplicated anywhere else in the Universe.

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 ...

For all his reputation as an elitist, Mortimer J. Adler argued vehemently for the democratization of American schools. The story goes that once, at a dinner party, the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler ...

At the memorial service, one speaker remembered Mortimer Adler’s “wonderful, elfinlike face.” Another talked of his attachment to angels, those “messengers of God” who were, to him, a kind of fantasy ...

What kills wonder is habituated boredom; what grows it is inspired practice. In his classic 1940 tome entitled How to Read a Book, the philosopher-educator Mortimer Adler delivered what has become, ...

Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler of the University of Chicago, 47, is a bounding dynamo of a man who is apt to have, “in my more paranoiac moments,” rather extravagant visions. “Imagine Carnegie Hall,” ...

Mortimer Adler built a publishing empire around the Great Books of the Western World. Scott McLemee interviews an author who has mapped its terrain. Originally published by Encyclopedia Britannica in ...

On the March 13, 1970, episode of Firing Line, WFB talks with Professor Mortimer Adler about the great ideas that should animate education and the effect of graduate schools on undergraduate learning.

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 ...