Mortimer J. Adler
Robert Maynard Hutchins was a prominent American educational philosopher whose career spanned law, academia, and publishing.
After earning degrees from Yale, he served as dean of Yale Law School before becoming president, then chancellor, of the University of Chicago.
There he introduced sweeping reforms centered on Great Books, Socratic dialogue, and comprehensive examinations.
Though his curriculum was largely abandoned after his 1951 resignation, adapted versions survived elsewhere.
He later served as Editor-in-Chief of Great Books of the Western World and Gateway to the Great Books, and chaired the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1943 to 1974.
