Institutional customers should check out the new Encyclopedia Britannica Online site, released this morning. The new site features a clean design, new content, and new features. Existing customers can just visit new.search.eb.com (or follow the “preview” link in the header of search.eb.com). For everyone else, I’ve got screen shots:
Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide note the remarkable educational history of Mortimer Adler:
He dropped out of high school at age 14 and began working as a copy boy at the New York Sun. Taking night classes, he became impressed by reading that John Stuart Mill (tutored by his dad) could read the dialogues of Plato in Greek at the age of 5. So at age 14, he bought a set of Plato and was hooked. John Cuddily would refer to him later as the “the only Ph.D. in America with no B.A., no M.A., not even a high school diploma.” […]
Who was this? This was of course Mortimer Adler, University of Chicago professor, founder of the Great Books of the Western World program, American educator, philosopher and author or editor of more than 50 books including the Encyclopedia Britannica and How to Read a Book.
[Via Eide Neurolearning Blog]
Casey Abell blogs the praises of Erasmus’ Encomium moriae (In Praise of Folly), one of Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World.
John Wilson’s 1688 translation of Encomium moriae is available for free.
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