Teaching Philosopy: How to Mark a Book by Mortimer Adler

In order for students to succeed in university English, it is necessary to understand the close relationship between reading and writing. Some skills enhance another skill. A competent reader will be a capable writer. The challenge is universal: How do we convert students from high school to university English? I would like to say that there is an answer, but the answer for each class and each semester will change. Even without a set of models, I understand that my model continues to evolve and reflects the needs of my students.

Mortimer Adler converted me to a reader in this simple article "How to Mark a Book". In junior high school and most high school, I hate reading. No one can let me read a book. I did not read this article until I graduated from high school. It changed my perception of reading and how reading should look. Fast forward, I became a teacher - My most challenging and once disgusted teacher: English. Writing lines between lines makes it easier to remember the line. This is a memory problem. You are gathering more brains. Believe me, I received a psychology course. In addition, you are more likely to remember something you think personally - and very unique - something that is meaningless to you than you write. (That is, at the first point, when you write it, when you annoy you, you remember the part bothering you, it is very strange thing?)

A series written by Mortimer Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Hutchins and other educators discusses the purpose and state of education and uses Great Books as a human knowledge base. The title article "Great Dialogue" of this book, written by Hutchins, was first published in Volume 1 of the Britannica Encyclopedia, is a joint project between Hutchins and Adler, aimed at reducing the theory of the university I am doing. Restore and protect civilization in the mountain of ashes. Among them, Hutchins believes that Western literature includes human dialogue of significance.