By taking us through his reading and rereading of books over the course of a life, Montas can articulate what is rarely articulated well about great books education.

Montás would go on to earn his Ph.D., direct Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum for 10 years, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students.

I think a graduate degree program is really the best place for a "Great Books" curriculum. A graduate student in physics might benefit from reading some of the old books in his or her discipline ...

The experience changed his life and determined his career — he went on to earn a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the Great Books in the 21st century. The Master of Arts ...

Especially urgent is his point that the Great Books curriculum, in its philosophical universality, is egalitarian.