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...exposure to the original works of distinguished thinkers, he introduced the Great Books course at Chicago. Another innovation was the flexible "Chicago Plan," which allowed students to enter and leave the university whenever they could pass the entrance and final examinations. Hutchins later served as editorial chairman of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, associate director of the Ford Foundation, and president of the Fund for the Republic, which fought for civil liberties and became an immediate target of McCarthyism. Its resources were used to found the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a think tank that Hutchins headed for 15 years...
There's a general who likes to say, "The transistors are the bullets of World War III." And the computers will be the tanks. We were told that the Pentagon gets enough intelligence data on tape and film every day to equal 40 complete Encyclopaedia Britannicas plus a couple of Gone With the Winds. A lot of the information is picked up by those spy-in-the-sky satellites. They take clear pictures in color, black and white, infra-red or ultraviolet. They also eavesdrop on radio and microwave communications. This is called "ferreting," and we have...
Drop in any evening at a literary pub in Edinburgh and you are likely to find William Smellie, who will expansively declare that he was the editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1771. And he is apt to say of his achievement: "I wrote most of it, my lad, and snipped out from books enough material for the printer. With pastepot and scissors I composed it." But as of now, Editor Smellie is finished at the Britannica. Because of the encyclopedia's success, both in Britain and the Colonies, the owners wanted all three volumes expanded according...
Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, chairman of the board of editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, rejects the antischool trend. But he concedes there may be good reason for the rising disbelief in the ultimate educability of everyone. Undifferentiated schooling, writes Adler, may be "doomed to defeat by differences in the children's economic, social and ethnic backgrounds and especially differences in the homes from which they come...
Samuel Johnson's two-volume dictionary was published in 1755, just four years after the first volume of Denis Diderot's Encyclopedic, that great compendium of information and Enlightenment opinion, had appeared in Paris. The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica began appearing in Edinburgh in 1768. The colonists knew and valued these works; indeed, I'Encyclopédie was among the most popular of all the books imported for colonial libraries. Information was instrumental to human happiness; education was meant to serve progress and political stability; and news, after all, was only one category of information...