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Quotes from Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind — Mortimer Adler

1902–2001 United States

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Above all, money-making and other external indices of social success must become subordinate to the inner attainments of moral and intellectual virtue.

Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990)

It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.

Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990)

Every seminar should involve at its conclusion the assignment of a short composition in which students would attempt to state how their understanding of the book discussed in the seminar was increased by their participation in the discussion.

Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mortimer Adler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.