The Paideia Response

Mortimer Adler

doi:10.17763/haer.53.4.3401w36k1p257134

A journal of Harvard Education Publishing Group

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Abstract

In the fall of 1982, the editors of the Harvard Educational Review informed me of their plan to publish a symposium of comments on The Paideia Proposal and asked me whether I would be willing to respond to the essays included in it. I replied that I would.