Milton Birnbaum, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Milton Birnbaum

Milton Birnbaum is the retired Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and professor of English at American International College. He has contributed articles on English and American literature to many journals and has published satiric articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education under the logo of "Higher Education, Eh?"

Mortimer Adler, a Socratic Gadfly

By Milton Birnbaum|2020-06-26T15:53:32-05:00June 28th, 2015|Categories: Education, Liberal Learning, Mortimer Adler|Tags: 1MA|

What Mortimer Adler has to say in “Reforming Education” is worth listening to and reflecting on. He may at times seem like a humorless Puritan, but he is certainly preferable to the many clowns that have cluttered up the road to education in recent years. Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their [...]