Great Books Education
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Updated: 7 Oct 2022
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Events
Allan Bloom's
The Closing of the American MindE.D. Hirsch's
Cultural Literacy:
What Every American Needs to KnowMatthew Arnold diesJohn Lubbock's 100
Great Books for
English workersAdler chairs Encyclopedia
Britannica board of editorsAdler's Paidea projectAdler founds Center for Study of Great IdeasCross, An Oasis of Order:
The Core Curriculum at
Columbia CollegeGeorge Woodbury, Great WritersHuxley-Arnold debate on purpose of educationJohn Dewey, Democracy and EducationJohn Stuart Mill, AutobiographyJohn Henry Newman, The Idea of a UniversityThe Education of Henry AdamsJonathan Swift, Battles of the BooksT.S. Eliot, The Idea of a Christian SocietyChristopher Dawson,
The Crisis of Western EducationMatthew Arnold, Culture and AnarchyHarvard GE ReportPhilip Johnson, Reason in the BalanceW.H. Auden course at U.MichMcClay reintroduces Auden course at OklahomaVillanova Core Texts initiatedLiterarae Humaniores course begins at Oxford"Modern Greats" begins at OxfordGreat Books Course at BerkeleyHarvard Classics PublishedJames Taylor student at PearsonAdler, Hutchins, & Paepckes found Aspen InstitutePeriods
Scott Buchanan attempts Great Books at UVAAl Geier at University of Rochester 50 years, taught JMNRJohn Mark Reynolds at RochesterGrouping
Columbia
Events
Columbia University
institutes Western
Civilizations course2-yr version Western CivMortimer AdlerFrederick Woodbridge (Columbia)
helps transition at Amherst from
philosopher/psychologist
Charles GarmanJohn Erskine invents
"General Honors" courseErskine's The Moral Obligation to Be IntelligentColumbia College
becomes a UniversityFrosh Contemporary Civ
course introducedLangston Hughes
and racism"War issues" syllabus createdColloquium on Important Books
revives General Honors type
courseFrosh Humanities A,B
sequence (Van Doren)Belknap committee recommends
ending CC HumAB as requiredErskine, The Delight of Great BooksPeriods
McKeon studies under Dewey and WoodbridgeMark Van Doren at ColumbiaJohn SeniorJacques Barzun at ColumbiaDewey at ColumbiaJohn ErskineLionel TrillingFJE WoodbridgeStanford
St John's
Events
St John's adopts the "New Program" under
Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, with
help from Adler and Van DorenSt John's de-segregatesEva Brann becomes
tutor at St. John'sScott Buchanan,
Poetry and MathematicsJacob KleinAdler appointed "Lecturer"Mickeljohn appointed "Lecturer"Wilfrid McClay at St John's?Simon Kaplan at St Johns at some point herePeriods
Kass at St John'sStrauss at St John'sBernadete at St John'sAdler at St John'sAl Geier undergrad at St John'sU Chicago
Events
Robert Hutchins begins
the "New Plan" at U ChicagoMortimer Adler, Scott Buchanan,
and Richard McKeon meet at
Cooper Union, NYC and begin
conceiving innovative new educational
programMcKeon arrivesHutchens departsRortyAdler & Hutchins launch
Public "Great Books
Program", basis of
Britannica seriesJacques Maritain, Education at the CrossroadsPeriods
Leo StraussBenardeteBloomAdlerDewey at ChicagoAl GeierDeborah Modrak, taught JMNRMickeljohn's career
U Kansas, IHP
Torrey Honors
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