A huge thank you to Diane Ravitch for this thoughtful article! ~ Angelicum Americans may be reading online, but that’s not literature. Without the great authors, where are the great thoughts? Five years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) issued an alarming report called Reading at Risk, which declared that literary reading was [...]
End the University as We Know It By MARK C. TAYLOR GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is20diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields [...]
Editor’s note: Our thanks to John Zmirak for this article. And a special thanks to one of our students, T. C., for sending us these beautiful pictures she took while in Florida. In times of economic slowdown, prices usually fall. Is your home worth as much as it was two years ago? As much as [...]
Check out the award winning videos below by our Great Books Student, Hunter Gill. Hunter won 3rd place with C-SPAN’s StudentCam 2010 competition. Congratulations on a job well done!
How to Read a Hard Book by Mortimer J. Adler I find that more and more people have an urge to pry into such difficult subjects as science, philosophy, religion, economics and political theory. One clear sign of this is the widespread circulation of the serious books that are now found everywhere in paper-back editions. [...]
We have printed new advertising items for conferences throughout America for this Spring and Summer. Click below to see the new Great Books ad. Great Books Academy Ad 2010
If you’re still in the GB program right now, cherish this time! I really believe that you will never have another class quite as good as this one. Even though I have some very excellent teachers at …..college (which everyone should come to, by the way lol)… none of them will be able to compare to [...]
The Great Books? Daniel J. Flynn From every page of A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books, author Alex Beam whispers: put down the Aristotle and pick up the remote. Stop reading that Dostoevsky text and start responding 2 a txt. There is a Dog the [...]
Our students have requested T-shirts for a several years. One of our students posted pictures of a T-shirt she designed on her Facebook wall. We are sharing the pictures here in hopes that other students will send us their ideas/thoughts for T-shirts. Please email us your ideas for a Great Books T-shirt to: GBAmailbox@aol.com We welcome your ideas! [...]
