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Q: 4. Is the Greats Honors Program only for straight A or top students?

Not at all – it’s the materials, the books, the lectures, the teachers, that need to be the best, in order to bring out the best in all of our students. The educational culture in which students are immersed strongly influences their subsequent intellectual growth and development. This was Dr. Adler’s point in the above quotation cited: the best education is not just best for some students, it is best for all students. “In the early 1930s, University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins was asked whether Great Books seminars, then open only to a picked handful of students, should be accessible to all the students in our colleges. His brief reply was crisp and clear. He said that the Great Books seminars in our public schools and in our colleges should be open to all the students there, not only to the few who select them or are specially selected.” – Mortimer J.Adler

Q: 3. For which grade levels is the Greats Honors Program designed?

9th -12th grades (age 14) and up. Do not let the fact that it includes some college-level lectures mislead you into thinking it is not for high-school-age students beginning in 9th grade–it is designed for them. Dr. Mortimer Adler long ago (beginning in the 1920’s) noted the decline in American education, and proposed a return to the study of the Great Books and the Socratic (conversational dialectic) method of studying them as two of the major parts of the remedy. He also noted, over many decades of observation and experiment, that teenagers, after the substantial completion of their education in the learning/liberal arts in elementary/primary school through 8th grade (learning reading, writing, speaking, listening, calculating, problem-solving, observing, measuring, estimating and exercising critical judgement), are thereafter able to use those skills to study and profit from the study of the greatest books and the great ideas contained in them. We have an extensive article on this point HERE . This clearly holds for excellent, well-prepared lectures, such as the Great Courses lectures, as well–lectures taught by enthusiastic, great teachers can obviously add much to a student’s learning experience. There is no point is reading books or listening to lectures that we fully understand and which do not stretch us intellectually. The corollary in that it is a waste of the time and minds of teens not to expose them–not to familiarize and acquaint them–with the greatest works and most profound ideas. "Learning, neglected in youth, loses the past and is dead to the future" – Euripides.

4. Is the Greats Honors Program only for straight A or top students?

Not at all – it’s the materials, the books, the [...]

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3. For which grade levels is the Greats Honors Program designed?

9th -12th grades (age 14) and up. Do not let [...]

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2. What is The Great Courses Plus?

The Great Courses Plus is a subscription video on demand [...]

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1. What is the Academy “Greats” Honors Program?

Since our founding in A.D. 2000, we have aimed at [...]

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Twelfth Grade (usually 17-year-olds)

GEOGRAPHY National Geographic Society Archived Magazines GREAT BOOKS PROGRAM: MODERNS [...]

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Eleventh Grade (usually 16-years-olds)

GREAT BOOKS PROGRAM: MIDDLE AGES The Great Conversation by Adler Study [...]

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Tenth Grade (usually 15-year-olds)

GREAT BOOKS PROGRAM: ANCIENT ROMANS The Great Conversation by Adler [...]

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Ninth Grade (usually 14-year-olds)

GREAT BOOKS PROGRAM: ANCIENT GREEK YEAR The Great Conversation by Adler [...]

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Eighth Grade (usually 13-year-olds)

ART Art in Focus Text GEOGRAPHY National Geographic Society Archived [...]

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Seventh Grade (usually 12-year-olds)

ART Art in Focus Student Text GEOGRAPHY National Geographic Society [...]

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