Mortimer Adler citáty
Mortimer Adler
Datum narození: 28. prosinec 1902
Datum úmrtí: 28. červen 2001
Mortimer Jerome Adler byl americký aristotelský filosof a spisovatel, spolutvůrce programu The Great Books.
Citáty Mortimer Adler
„Telefonní seznam je plný faktů, ale neobsahuje jedinou myšlenku.“
Originál: (en) The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Zdroj: [Adler, Mortimer, Van Doren, Geraldine, 1988, Reforming education: the opening of the American mind, Macmillan, angličtiny]
„Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
„In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.“
Zdroj: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
„True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
„There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
„Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.“
Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.“
Zdroj: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 315
„The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.“
Zdroj: Joseph Allen (1979). The Leisure alternatives catalog: food for mind & body. p. 134
„Above all, money-making and other external indices of social success must become subordinate to the inner attainments of moral and intellectual virtue.“
Zdroj: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 314
„For the educational establishment… test scores are treated as indications of the extent to which the required ground covering has been done. …as educationally significant. However, while they may be prognostic of a child's ability to get through school… they do not provide us with an appraisal of the child's progress in the long process of becoming a generally educated human being -- the advance made toward a more skillful, thoughtful, and cultivated mind.“
Zdroj: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 312
„A report of the Carnegie Foundation recommended the abolition of the undergraduate bachelor of science degree in education leading to the state certification of teachers. Schools of education should become research institutions at the graduate level of the university and not places for the training of schoolteachers. Those planning to enter the profession of teaching should have four years of general, liberal education at the college level, and then three years of practice teaching under supervision… the best teacher is one who learns in the process of teaching.“
Zdroj: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 314
