Frasi di Mortimer Jerome Adler

Mortimer Jerome Adler è stato un filosofo statunitense, educatore ed autore popolare.

Come filosofo seguì la tradizione aristotelica e tomistica. Visse per lunghi periodi a New York City, Chicago, San Francisco e San Mateo. Adler lavorò presso la Columbia University, la University of Chicago e la Encyclopædia Britannica, e fondò l'Institute for Philosophical Research. Adler è stato sposato due volte divenendo padre per quattro volte. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Dicembre 1902 – 28. Giugno 2001
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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”

Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”

Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”

Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.”

Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”

Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.”

Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”

Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information

“It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.”

Origine: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 315

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

Origine: 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.”

Origine: 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.

“The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.”

Origine: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2

“Unlike many of my contemporaries, I never write books for my fellow professors to read. I have no interest in the academic audience at all. I'm interested in Joe Doakes. A general audience can read any book I write – and they do.”

Origine: 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.

“An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.”

Origine: Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling (1977), p. 255

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