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Your review of Mr. Hutchins' Great Conversation [Sept. 21] points up the end of an era. Adler and Hutchins were the great reactionaries of philosophy at a time when it had reached a low ebb. Flying against the strong winds of experimentalism, their banner of Platonism called the unbeliever...
Now, however, since most of our modern philosophers have turned from a headlong flight into change for the sake of change, the leadership of Adler and Hutchins seems puny indeed. It is now universally recognized that one must know what Plato said, but one must also know how much of...
I wonder if anyone is more profoundly confused, in this century of profound confusion, than Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins is concerning the goals and functions of education?
What Dr. Hutchins is really advocating...is a return to educational escapism, wherein education becomes an end in itself, is totally severed from all worldly connections and relationships...
"The doctrine of adaptation," complains Dr. Hutchins, "has won the day." Which breed or variety of adaptation?...Suffering one's problems is a form of human adaptation...Solving one's problems is an adaptative process also...We are living in a brighter, better age-an age when most...