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Kids need the great books, Adler tells W. Side teachers

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19900610
Author:Tom McNamee

In a world overpopulated by the likes of Robocop, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Aerosmith, Niccolo Machiavelli is a nobody.

Unless, of course, you are Mortimer Adler. In which case Machiavelli is a somebody. A major somebody. Bigger than Bart Simpson.

"Here we are talking about somebody writing in the 16th century, and he is very relevant to today," Adler insisted one afternoon last week. "If he were not, I would not teach him."

Adler, 87, the distinguished philosopher and author, ventured out to Austin High School on Chicago's impoverished West Side Thursday to lead a seminar on ...

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