Sounds wonderful: This is a ‘great books’ college. The great books of the western tradition, not the professors, are the teachers: de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity and Kafka and Derrida and Nietzsche and Freud and Marx and Machiavelli and Shakespeare and the Bible...Textbooks about the great books are forbidden. That would be too easy. It is primary sources only here...There are no lectures. Each class takes the form of Socratic dialogue between the students, guided by a professor if necessary. ‘We count among us prodigies who left high school early, homeschoolers, transfers, veterans, sci-fi writers, multi-linguists, painters, philosophers, contrarians, misfits, and the double-jointed’. theguardian/education/2014/dec/06/shimer-college-illinois-worst-school-america
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