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A College for reading?

Emerson · 2006-10-19T02:12:35Z

My dad saved an article of a news paper for me, I thought I would share it here. A college for Reading? October 9, 2006 BY JIM RITTER Staff Reporter An unusual little college has just moved to the South Side of Chicago. It's called Shimer College, and it's the only college in the Midwest where every student must take a daunting Great Books curriculum. For four years, students immerse themselves in the often-challenging writers who have shaped Western culture, from Aristotle and Sophocles to William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Students call their professors by their first names. Professors call themselves "facilitators." There are no lectures. Classes, typically with just 12 students, are run like Socratic dialogues. ... Read more Here What do you think of that? I wish I could go there...They're reading Dostoevsky! I'm reading his crime and punishment now, and I want to read the one there reading. Does that make me smart or what, hm? hee hee.