Note Taking Traditions

Note Taking Traditions

Scaffolding “Secret” Knowledge: An analogy for teachers of thinkers, creators, readers, and writers

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Chris Aldrich
Sep 27, 2023
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There’s something incredibly important to learn in studying two very similar photographs of Mortimer J. Adler from the middle of the last century. I’ll present them here for reference:

Black and white advertisement photo for the Great Books of the Western World featuring a photo of Mortimer J. Adler holding a pipe to his mouth superimposed over an arched display of the 54 books in the series behind him

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