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Article: A Great New World.
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Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins' idea has proven its appeal over the past half century.
IT'S ENOUGH TO STRIKE terror into the heart of a tenth-grader. Chairs are arranged in a circle near the windows. People filter in slowly, several arriving after the others have started. This year's reading list includes Aristotle, Plato, Freud, Rousseau, Darwin and Shakespeare, but tonight's discussion focuses on Herodotus, whose History of the Persian Wars dates back to 425 B.C. The two-hour meeting is filled with explaining, questioning, sometimes yelling and, before the dust has finally settled, great debate.
While the setting might sound familiar and ...