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the college major that requires no admission, just stubbornness and a library card.
means a curated canon of foundational western texts (Homer to Nietzsche, roughly) taught as if the big questions never went out of style.
from born at columbia in 1920 from a war-rattled generation asking what civilization was even for, then franchised by st. john's college and mortimer adler's britannica set into a whole pedagogical movement.
st johns collegeentire curriculum, all four years, only this
adler's set54 volumes sold door to door like encyclopedias
no textbooks ruleyou read plato, not a summary of plato
seminar sizeusually capped near twenty, discussion only