• Shimer Great Books School (pronounced /ˈʃaɪmər/ SHY-mər) is a Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Prior...
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    Classic book (redirect from Great books)
    Annapolis (1937) and Santa Fe (1964). It was followed by Shimer Great Books School (1950) now a school that is part of North Central College, Thomas Aquinas...
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    reform § Reforms of classical education Four arts General studies Great books Great Books programs in Canada Humanitas Humanities Interdisciplinarity Jesuit...
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    part of the Classical education movement) and at the independent Oundle School in the United Kingdom. Etymologically, the Latin word trivium means "the...
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    the great monuments of human thought, literature, and art". A university or college Great Books Program is a program inspired by the Great Books movement...
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  • The Shimer Great Books School Core Program is a curriculum sequence of 16 required courses in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and interdisciplinary...
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    students and faculty of Shimer College, a Great Books college that was acquired in 2017 by North Central College. Founded in 1853, Shimer occupied a traditional...
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    forth the "Great Books" of Western civilization as the center stage for a classical education curriculum in the 1930s. Some public schools (primarily...
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    Shimer College became the Shimer School of Great Books at North Central College. Characteristics that have been noted to recur throughout Shimer's history...
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    Summerhill School. Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2008. Bull, Richard E. (1970). Summerhill USA. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140803006...
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    used by the classical education movement and at the independent Oundle School, in the United Kingdom. Look up quadrivium in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
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  • (Liverpool) The Small School (Hartland, Devon) The Family School (SW London) California Deep Springs College (Deep Springs) Illinois Shimer College (Chicago)...
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    Robert Maynard Hutchins (category Deans of Yale Law School)
    perennialism Great Books Great Books of the Western World Liberal education College of the University of Chicago Shimer Great Books School, and St. John's...
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  • not know the answer. Great Books Great Books of the Western World Western canon St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) Shimer College Harrison Middleton...
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    College began opening new campuses in 1964, when it purchased the Putney School of Education in Vermont. Eventually it opened 38 different campuses, and...
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    Deep Springs College (category Schools accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges)
    cattle, moving hay, butchering chickens, wiring cables, sorting library books, and fixing vehicles" with the academic curriculum dedicated wholly to the...
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    In June 2017, North Central College acquired Shimer College and instituted the Shimer Great Books School of North Central College. The college is on a...
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  • Great Hearts Academies is a non-profit charter school management organization that operates a network of elementary, middle, and high schools in the Phoenix...
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    A. S. Neill (category Heads of schools in England)
    counter-culture interest. Neill wrote 20 books. His top seller was the 1960 Summerhill, read widely in the free school movement from the 1960s. Alexander Sutherland...
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  • Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts New Saint Andrews College Shimer Great Books School St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) Thomas Aquinas College...
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    Sudbury Valley School was founded in 1968 by a community of people in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States. In 2019, several schools stated that they...
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  • Louis St. Viator College Shimer Great Books School Shurtleff College Solex College University of Chicago Graduate Library School University of Nauvoo Vatterott...
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  • Dorothy Sayers by the same title. She lamented that the “great defect of our education" was that schools taught information, but did not teach students how...
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  • and the Free School Movement. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-47132-7. OCLC 347882. Graubard, Allen (August 1972b). "The Free School Movement"....
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  • Alternative School is an alternative public school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1972, it is Toronto's oldest elementary alternative school. It was...
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    Free School is a private, ungraded, democratic free school in Brooklyn, founded in 2004. Students range in age from 4 to 18 years old. The school follows...
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    and speaks regularly at schools, conferences, and homeschool conventions as well as serving as a consultant for over 55 schools in 26 states. Perrin has...
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  • Classical Academic Press publishes books and K–12 curriculum (including Latin, Greek, Spanish, science, logic, writing, rhetoric, grammar, poetry, literature...
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  • Permanent Rebel. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-51403-1. Crutis, Sarah (April 27, 1962). "Self-Regulating School". The Times Literary Supplement...
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  • Community School (LACS) is a public, alternative, combined middle and high school in the Ithaca City School District in Ithaca, New York. The school serves...
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