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Interview: Dr. Eric Adler on Battle of the Classics | The New Thinkery Ep. 68

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Teaching the Greatest Texts in the World

The real reason, i think, they don't like the great books is that they want to continue to write their narrow research. The world's experts on particular topics do a really bad job of demonstrating any sense of excitement about that text. So there are upsides and downsides. And i don't think that that should be a serious criticism of this way forw because i think it much more salubrious. I just literally meant like, i don't even know what translation tepict sometimes.

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