We meet people like John Erskine, the grandfather of the Great Books movement and a “gentleman of the old school,” as Beam describes him. Erskine believed a great book was one that “has meaning, and ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Mortimer J. Adler, a high school dropout who went on to become an educational theorist, a father of the Great Books program and the world's highest paid philosopher, died Thursday at ...

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