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3 giorni fa · For example, Mortimer Adler’s The Paideia Proposal emphasizes the importance of didactic instruction (what researchy types call direction instruction). And Susan Wise Bauer’s The Well-Trained Mind discusses the need to furnish the minds of children with facts, pictures, stories, and other such knowledge—which sounds an awful lot like schema theory .
3 giorni fa · Mortimer J. Adler’s How to Read a Book introduced him to the Socratic seminars and Great Books curriculum at St. John’s, prompting Winiarski to transfer to Annapolis. “It talked a lot about St. John’s, and I realized that’s where I need to be,” he said of Adler’s 1940 bestseller.
5 giorni fa · This blog could be described as an attempt to connect to the Great Conversation, Mortimer Adler’s term for the historical current of intellectual and aesthetic discourse. 1. I avoid most forms of social media because I find they tend to prey on my emotions and waste my time.
5 giorni fa · The American philosopher and educator Mortimer Adler said, “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life”. A life well lived is a life of leadership, so I dare say that reading is a ...
5 giorni fa · 6565 Arlington Blvd • Falls Church, VA 22042. A longtime staple of high-school reading lists, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has come under attack in recent years. While earlier criticisms questioned the book’s right to be considered a classic, current criticisms accuse the book of presenting racial stereotypes and racist views.
4 giorni fa · Mortimer Adler first advocated for using Socratic pedagogies in modern K-12 classrooms to support democratic schooling. He argued in his books, Paideia Proposal (1982) and Paideia Problems and Possibilities (1983), that education should be rooted in three goals: (1) the acquisition of knowledge, (2) the development of intellectual skills, and (3) the enlarged understanding of ideas and values.
6 giorni fa · Im kinda struggling with Aristotle. I started reading Plato in January (stopped from March to May due to school) and I read the Republic, Meno, Crito, Phaedo, Apology of Socrates, and Symposium. I have little to no problem with most of them, and although I am a slow and meticulous reader (specially with philosophical/political texts) I did ...
