Mortimer Adler Quote

To avoid this error, the error of assuming that that to be widely read and to be well read are the same thing, we must consider a certain distinction in types of learning.... In the history of education, men have often distinguished between learning by instruction and learning by discovery.... Discovery stands to instruction as learning without a teacher stands to learning through the help of one. In both cases the activity of learning goes on in the one who learns. It would be a mistake to suppose that discovery is active learning, and instruction passive. There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading. This is so true, in fact, that a better way to make the distinction clear is to call instruction aided discovery.


p. 11-12 - How to Read a Book (1940, 1972)


To avoid this error, the error of assuming that that to be widely read and to be well read are the same thing, we must consider a certain distinction ...

To avoid this error, the error of assuming that that to be widely read and to be well read are the same thing, we must consider a certain distinction ...

To avoid this error, the error of assuming that that to be widely read and to be well read are the same thing, we must consider a certain distinction ...

To avoid this error, the error of assuming that that to be widely read and to be well read are the same thing, we must consider a certain distinction ...