Quote of the Day (Mortimer Adler, on Why ‘The Great Ideas Belong to Everyone’)
“We often think of ourselves as living in a world
which no longer has any unexplored frontiers. We speak of pioneering as a thing
of the past. But in doing so we forget that the greatest adventure of all still
challenges us – what Mr. Justice [Oliver Wendell] Holmes [Jr.] called ‘the adventure of the human
mind.’ Men may be hemmed in geographically, but every generation stands on the
frontiers of the mind. In the world of ideas, there is always pioneering to be
done, and it can be done by anyone who will use the equipment with which he is
endowed. The great ideas belong to everyone.”—American philosopher and educator
Mortimer Adler (1902-2001), Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1989)
“We often think of ourselves as living in a world
which no longer has any unexplored frontiers. We speak of pioneering as a thing
of the past. But in doing so we forget that the greatest adventure of all still
challenges us – what Mr. Justice [Oliver Wendell] Holmes [Jr.] called ‘the adventure of the human
mind.’ Men may be hemmed in geographically, but every generation stands on the
frontiers of the mind. In the world of ideas, there is always pioneering to be
done, and it can be done by anyone who will use the equipment with which he is
endowed. The great ideas belong to everyone.”—American philosopher and educator
Mortimer Adler (1902-2001), Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1989)
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