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After 15 years of service to the Harvard community, John D. Stubbs '80, senior tutor in Currier House, and Caroline Quillian Stubbs '80, the assistant senior tutor for fellowships, are leaving to work at the Paideia School in Atlanta, Ga., next year...
Stubbs, who is also a lecturer on anthropology, will become the director of college counseling at Paideia, a private secondary school, and will also teach archaeology and anthropology there. He says he is looking forward to spending more time in the classroom as a secondary school teacher...
...Paideia High School in Atlanta, Director ofCollege Counseling Virginia L. Rose said Harvardoften relies on its reputation...
Five years ago Adler introduced an iconoclastic program he calls the Paideia (from the Greek word for raising a child) to schools in Atlanta, Chicago and Oakland. Unlike conventional curriculums, with their set-piece texts and lectures, fast-track studies for bright kids and vocational dead ending for slower ones, the Paideia presents the same material to all students, conveyed through Socratic talk between teachers and pupils. It is Adler's conviction that every child can handle the richest offering of broad, humanistic learning. While he concedes that intellectual capacities vary, by his own metaphor, from half-pint to gallon...
...word essays defining the 102 Great Ideas that constitute the heart of a prodigious index to the Great Books. In addition, he started and still directs the Institute for Philosophical Research, which is devoted to publishing learned tracts. He passionately pushes his Paideia program, an experimental educational system that is imbuing selected elementary and high schools in Atlanta, Oakland and Chicago with a rigorous curriculum taught in part by the Socratic method. Adler's prescription for such sustained productivity: "I take almost no exercise, and I work harder every year than the year before...