Mortimer J. Adler, the iconoclastic encyclopedist and progenitor of the “Great Books” collection of notable writers and thinkers, died Thursday at his home in San Mateo. He was 98. The former longtime ...

Adler passionately believes that most people, even those with college degrees, have not really acquired the skills necessary to explore the world of ideas. To document his argument that people are not ...

Mortimer J. Adler, the high school dropout who became a philosopher at 15 and revolutionized American thought by insisting that reading the Great Books was the key to understanding the human condition ...

Two Latin teachers* recently agreed that the event which would give them most pleasure and at the same time mightily advance the cause of true education would be to blow up Teachers College at ...

“The architect of the Great Books, Mortimer Adler, moved beyond big ideas to the mysteries of faith.” Philosopher and editor Mortimer J. Adler died Thursday night at the age of 98. As we noted in the ...

How TO READ A BOOK—Morfimer J. Adler—Simon and Schuster ($2.50). Mortimer Jerome Adler never graduated from high school. He never got a B.A. degree. In 1917, when he was 15, he quit high school in ...

This year marks Aspen Country Day School’s 50th year. My tenure there spanned 13 of the school’s early years. My memory connects the school with Mortimer Adler, an important post-Paepcke contributor ...