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The Great Books: VII. The Education of Adults

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Virtual library / blogging the "classics". Friday, August 26, 2016. VII The Education of Adults. From The Great Conversation. By Robert Maynard Hutchins. The great, wild proliferation of the curriculum of American schools, colleges, and universities is the result of many influences; but we can say with some assurance that if adult life had been looked upon as a time for continued learning, the pressure toward proliferation would have been measurably reduced. What is a good life? By Robert Maynard Hutchins.

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The Great Books: X. A Letter to the Reader

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Virtual library / blogging the "classics". Friday, August 26, 2016. X A Letter to the Reader. From The Great Conversation. By Robert Maynard Hutchins. IMAGINE you reading this far in this set of books for the purpose of discovering whether you should read further. I will assume that you have been persuaded of the necessity and possibility of reading these books in order to get a liberal education. But how about you? Can you ever understand them? In our colleges the curriculum is often so arranged that ta...

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The Great Books: The Great Conversation

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Virtual library / blogging the "classics". By Robert Maynard Hutchins. Published 1952. This online edition is derived from the copy found at archive.org. I The Tradition of the West. III Education and Economics. IV The Disappearance of Liberal Education. VI Education for All. VII The Education of Adults. VIII The Next Great Change. IX East and West. X A Letter to the Reader. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Collected Odes of Keats. HG Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau with restored intro chapter. Mark Edmundson ...

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The Great Books: VI. Education for All

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Virtual library / blogging the "classics". Friday, August 26, 2016. VI Education for All. From The Great Conversation. By Robert Maynard Hutchins. We must now return to the most important question, which is : Can everybody get this education? When an educational ideal is proposed, we are entitled to ask in what measure it can be achieved. If it cannot be achieved at all, those who propose it may properly be accused of irresponsibility or disingenuousness. The two criticisms I have mentioned come to the s...

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The Great Books: The Books

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Virtual library / blogging the "classics". Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Remembrance of Things Past. The Tragedy of Coriolanus. First edition, 1855). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Collected Odes of Keats. HG Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau with restored intro chapter. AddLibra Bookstore (amazon-free zone). Bartleby.com: great books online. Great books, big ideas. Robinson Jeffers Our sardine fishermen work at night in the darkof the moon; daylight or.

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The Great Books: VIII. The Next Great Change

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Virtual library / blogging the "classics". Friday, August 26, 2016. VIII The Next Great Change. From The Great Conversation. By Robert Maynard Hutchins. SINCE education is concerned with the future, let us ask ourselves what we know positively about the future. We know that all parts of the world are getting closer together in terms of the mechanical means of transportation and communication. We know that this will continue. The world is going to be unified, by conquest or consent. We see at once that th...

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The Great Books: The Great Conversation: Preface

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Virtual library / blogging the "classics". Friday, August 26, 2016. The Great Conversation: Preface. From The Great Conversation. By Robert Maynard Hutchins. The Editors felt that the chronological order was the most appropriate organizing principle for the volumes of this set. Since they conceived of this collection of books as repro- ducing a conversation among its authors, it was a natural decision to make the successive volumes of the set present, so far as possible, the authors in the temporal s...

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The Great Books: About

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Virtual library / blogging the "classics". The concept "great books" stems from the late 19th century early 20th century. The idea is simple. Life is short, and there is no time to read all the books. Better to read the good ones, nay the greatest ones, while we can. The site will grow. If a book isn't here yet, be patient. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Collected Odes of Keats. HG Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau with restored intro chapter. AddLibra Bookstore (amazon-free zone). Great books, big ideas.

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The Great Books: V. Experimental Science

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Virtual library / blogging the "classics". Friday, August 26, 2016. From The Great Conversation. By Robert Maynard Hutchins. One voice in the Great Conversation itself announces this modern point of view. In the closing paragraph of his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume writes: "When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume . let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? I’ve...

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The Great Books: IX. East and West

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Virtual library / blogging the "classics". Friday, August 26, 2016. IX East and West. From The Great Conversation. By Robert Maynard Hutchins. AT this point I hear some reader say, "The world community and the world republic of law and justice must be composed of all peoples everywhere. These are great books of the West. How can comprehension of the tradition they embody amount to participation in the world republic of learning? If, on the other hand, the awakening East tries to retain, beneath the new v...