The Paideia Way, Interview with Dr. Robert Woods | 017
Description
Dr. Woods is the Headmaster at Veritas Christian Academy. He also founded the Great Books program at Faulkner University. We interview him about his book Mortimer Adler: The Paideia Way of Classical Education
Mortimer Adler was the "every-man's philosopher" as well as an educational reformer. In Dr. Woods' book he brings us to Mortimer Adler and the goals he sought to reform education to be focused around the Great Books.
Books Mentioned
Adler, Reforming Education: Opening of the American Mind
The Difference of Man and the Difference if Makes
The Paideia Program
The Paideia Proposal
Comeius, The Great Didactic
Veith, Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping American
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The Great Books of the Western World
Gateway to the Great Books
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PDF of The Great Conversation
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