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Jul 22, 2021 · A great book can serve as a kind of optical instrument offered to help us discern what, without that book, we would perhaps never have seen in ourselves. A great book, reflectively, can become for us a path to self-realization, even a form of therapy: bibliotherapy. We can accept or reject what books tell us; we can change ourselves in response ...
- Robert Diyanni
Dec 13, 2021 · At Columbia, undergraduates must complete two years of non-departmental great-books courses: Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy, for first-year students, and Introduction to ...
- Louis Menand
It’s not just great books that changed your life but also great teachers. Yes. Liberal education is something that happens between people, not between books and people or institutions and people. It requires a small, curated artisanal practice in which a student’s individuality is recognized and cultivated for what it is.
Reading List. St. John’s College is best known for its reading list and the Great Books curriculum that was adopted in 1937. While the list of books has evolved over the last century, the tradition of all students reading foundational texts of Western civilization remains. The reading list at St. John’s includes classic works in philosophy ...
Join us! “Reading the Great Books had done more for my mind than all the rest of the academic pursuits…it is the best education for the faculty as well as for the students; the use of original texts is an antidote for survey courses and fifth-rate textbooks; and it constitutes by itself, if properly conducted, the backbone of a liberal ...
Dec 17, 2021 · Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People. Roosevelt Montás came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a child, got his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. from Columbia and ...
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The Great Books Foundation began in July 1947 with a mission to promote lifelong education and civil discourse through the reading and discussion of outstanding literature. Today, we’ve extended that mission to people of all ages, and we facilitate the discussion of ideas expressed not only through literature, but in artwork and media of any ...
