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How to Speak How to Listen
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How to Speak How to Listen

Mortimer J. Adler
Touchstone, 1997
First Edition: 1983

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Concrete Examples
  • Inspiring

Recommendation

In 1940, intellectual, philosopher and academic Mortimer J. Adler wrote How to Read a Book, described by Amazon as a “living classic.” Forty years later, he wrote this accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge, intellectual rigor and scholarly panache that distinguished his first book. Adler is well known for popularizing the Western intellectual tradition and making it accessible. A noted public educator, he chaired the board of editors at Encyclopedia Britannica and helped create the Great Books of the Western World program. getAbstract recommends Adler’s personal communications guidebook as thoughtful fare full of worthwhile lessons on how to speak and listen in sharper, more useful ways.

Take-Aways

  • Aristotle and Plato stressed the importance of “grammar, rhetoric and logic.”
  • Sadly, rhetoric and logic are no longer part of basic education.
  • Prior to the invention of the printing press, only instructors in medieval universities possessed manuscripts. Students had to listen.

About the Author

Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902-2001) was an American philosopher and educator. The author of How to Read a Book, he contributed often to Catholic philosophical and educational journals.

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    Y. B. 2 years ago
    very wide
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    A. C. 3 years ago
    Very interesting
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    M. B. 6 years ago
    Excellent Soft Skills for today's industry.