The Great Books: Enemies of Wisdom?

By |2023-06-11T10:32:45-05:00May 1st, 2023|Categories: Education, Great Books, Philosophy, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

Great Books fanaticism ignores the audience and in so doing reveals its parochialism, its innocence towards history. We no longer live in a book-dominated culture; to treat our students as though we did is to violate their very psychic structure. Today we enter a new kind of Middle Ages, but Great Books people still absent-mindedly [...]