Why Educate? (Preview: This Week’s Great Books Debate)

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Why Educate? (Preview: This Week's Great Books Debate)
      

This week, starting tomorrow, the Britannica Blog will conduct one of its occasional fora/freeforalls, this one on the topic of Great Books. Not so much the set of volumes available for purchase from a certain publishing company (Encyclopaedia Britannica), but the idea that there are certain identifiable books that are the best of the best and that reading them ought to be the core of, or at least a significant element in, the education of the young.

I'll be contributing a review of Alex Beam's new book, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books, on both aspects of the "Great Books."  Your opinions are welcome, too.


         

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