Word: adler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adler's Paideia...
...breath of hope comes from Mortimer Adler [Sept. 6]! What currently passes for an educational system in the United States more nearly resembles a glorified baby-sitting service...
...teacher who is tired, not from teaching but from reading people like Mortimer Adler. If the experts would work in a high school for two years, assuming all duties from supervising dances to hall duty, then their pronouncements might be considered important. They need to emerge from the dark ages of academic theory and ego to the realities of contemporary education...
...took a Paideia seminar with Mortimer Adler last spring. Rather than a "first among equals," he was a bombastic drill sergeant, more devoted to playing "Guess My Interpretation" than to the discussion and evaluation of student ideas...
...blithe clarion for what he calls the crucial link in education--"highly gifted, strongly motivated teachers"--Adler points up exactly the stumbling block on which previous reform efforts have tumbled. Unfortunately, his scenario is so far in the clouds that it loses all relevance to education's current state. Notes sociologist David Riesman '31, who has taken exception publicly to Paideia's generally positive reception: "Hitching your wagon to a star is one thing, but if the wagon is mired in the mud and the star looks too remote, no one will make the effort to move...