Poets & Philosophers

The Paideia Way, Interview with Dr. Robert Woods | 017


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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

Great Ideas Program


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