Mortimer Adler - Revision history

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 Adler went on to spread the gospel of the Core, seeding its imitators at the [[University of Chicago]] and [[St. John's College]], which now rarely acknowledge their debts to Columbia.
 == External links ==
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 Adler went on to spread the gospel of the Core, seeding its imitators at the [[University of Chicago]] and [[St. John's College]], which now rarely acknowledge their debts to Columbia.
 [[Category:Columbia College alumni|Adler, Mortimer]]
 [[Category:GSAS alumni|Adler, Mortimer]]
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 '''Mortimer Adler''' [[Columbia College|CC]] (failed to graduate) [[PhD]] '[[1928|28]] was a noted philosopher and proponent of the [[Core Curriculum]].
-Adler had a rather haphazard education, at first. He dropped out of school at 14 to work for the ''[[New York Sun]]'', hoping to become a journalist. He enrolled in night classes at Columbia to improve his writing. When he read the autobiography of John Stuart Mill and learned that that thinker had first read Plato, whom Adler had never read, at age five, Adler decided he needed to continue his studies.
+Adler had a rather haphazard education, at first. He dropped out of school at 14 to work for the original ''[[New York Sun]]'', hoping to become a journalist. He enrolled in night classes at Columbia to improve his writing. When he read the autobiography of John Stuart Mill and learned that that thinker had first read Plato, whom Adler had never read, at age five, Adler decided he needed to continue his studies.
 He won a scholarship to attend [[Columbia College]] (this was clearly before the days of [[GS]]), and blazed through his studies in three years, but was so focused on philosophy that he refused to take the [[Swim Test]], and could not be granted a [[BA]]. Despite this, Columbia allowed him to become a graduate instructor and, in [[1928]], earn a [[PhD]] in pyschology. In [[1983]], perhaps recognizing the absurdity of this state of affairs, Columbia awarded him an honorary bachelors degree.

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 [[Image:MortimerAdler.jpg|thumb|200px|Mortimer Adler]]
-'''Mortimer Adler''' [[Columbia College|CC]] (failed to graduate) [[PhD]] '[[1928|28]] was a noted philosopher. He had, however, a rather haphazard educational history. Adler dropped out of school at 14 to work for the ''New York Sun'', hoping to become a journalist. He enrolled in night classes at Columbia to improve his writing. When he read the autobiography of John Stuart Mill and learned that that thinker had first read Plato, whom Adler had never read, at age five, Adler decided he needed to continue his studies.
+'''Mortimer Adler''' [[Columbia College|CC]] (failed to graduate) [[PhD]] '[[1928|28]] was a noted philosopher and proponent of the [[Core Curriculum]].
 He won a scholarship to attend [[Columbia College]] (this was clearly before the days of [[GS]]), and blazed through his studies in three years, but was so focused on philosophy that he refused to take the [[Swim Test]], and could not be granted a [[BA]]. Despite this, Columbia allowed him to become a graduate instructor and, in [[1928]], earn a [[PhD]] in pyschology. In [[1983]], perhaps recognizing the absurdity of this state of affairs, Columbia awarded him an honorary bachelors degree.

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	'''Mortimer Adler''' [[Columbia College\|CC]] (failed to graduate) [[PhD]] '[[1928\|28]] was a noted philosopher. He had, however, a rather haphazard educational history. Adler dropped out of school at 14 to work for the ''New York Sun'', hoping to become a journalist. He enrolled in night classes at Columbia to improve his writing. When he read the autobiography of John Stuart Mill and learned that he had first read Plato, whom Adler had never read, at age five, Adler decided he needed to continue his studies.		'''Mortimer Adler''' [[Columbia College\|CC]] (failed to graduate) [[PhD]] '[[1928\|28]] was a noted philosopher. He had, however, a rather haphazard educational history. Adler dropped out of school at 14 to work for the ''New York Sun'', hoping to become a journalist. He enrolled in night classes at Columbia to improve his writing. When he read the autobiography of John Stuart Mill and learned that he had first read Plato, whom Adler had never read, at age five, Adler decided he needed to continue his studies.