European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Just ask Ortiz Adler by David smothers United press International by child still hanging around the Bouse after the age of 4 is wasting his its a great waste of they ought to go to school at 4 and be out Al thales it unless they Are going to graduate the state of american education is getting its a Lack of some of these High schools have offered 230 utterly v the future of the human race is humanity problems can be solved by human reasoning emotionless its unlikely thinking int Worth a but god is not dead he and the worlds highest paid philosopher thinks he can prove to fete Are of Mortimer Jerome who i hit years Kas been accused of inking he an the Adler does not that Tat he is exuberantly willing to take a Tab at coming up we to the he to a High school he never got a bachelors he did get a partly because the examining Board at Columbia University let him fudge on his German and English after a decade of teaching at he joined his Robert Maynard the boy wonder president of the University of in grabbing Amer ican higher education by the can and shaking the Chicago program was largely Hull Hans and the it often their stand was that College Stu Are not equipped to know what they should learn they would learn what they were told to one advantage they could Start College at and get out at the Hutchi Sadler scheme of things has been altered drastically at but it left an Impact on Many of the nations major adar took its them teaching of the great Bonks and sorting out of gnat ideas of Ibe Western Aad nude a career oat of he rounded up Chicago Power brokers and got them to read Arlo me is mod  Adler seminars in the great books have endured since the Early 1940s be had been teaching them Long before at Columbia and Chicago and currently warm up the minds of toe nations at the ski resort of where few things come he wrote a Best seller called How to read a largely to get enough Money to keep up the rent on his Chicago Heia shooed William an advertising magnate who had retired into politics and to Back publication of Adieu list of the great All m volumes of them along with an Adler special a synth Pam Index pinpointing and indexing All the major ideas in Adler turned travelling Salesman on that when the dub Ushers ran out of Money for paper and he Wert stand sold sets for tsp a whack a Quarter of he took on the Job of reshaping the venerable encyclopaedia Britannica of which be to chairman of the Board of if anybody to to be praised or blamed for the new it probably decided that what the 20th Century needs is a summation of All relevant Philosoph ical thought concerning about 75 Al least great ideas his Model was the Summa Thomas Aquinas towering overview of theological thought in the emotional thinking int Worth a 13th Adler set out to write and direct a Summa dialect he will never get the Job Adler and his colleagues at the Institute Lor Philosoph ical which be have written and published works on about a dozen ideas ranging from Freedom to but look at the Adler we have worked now for 25 it will take a Long time to finish the he Hopes the the brains and the to bring the task to completion after he is gone will be provided one at those in whom Adler puts us Toul to Charles Van television watchers of the 1990s will recall Van Daren As the Boyish savant who could answer everything on the question show until he pretended to blow the name of the King of Belgium because he wanted out of the it turned out the Snow was rigged and Van Daren i knew him when he was a Adler his Mark Van and i taught great books at co i was in the Hospital two Days after the child was when he got into this which i think la regret table and he has atoned for it Many i arranged for him to come to work for Hes now a vice president of the Britannica and Hes still an associate director of this he is one of those 1 would want to pursue my his remarks came in an interview on an afternoon when Adler was fuming in his offices overlooking Chica gos Rush Street night club 1 just got Back the proofs of my new he and some militant editor has gone through it and changed every reference to Man to what am i  Ift a Hur Nln a now Ive got to go All the Way through the Book on due for summer publication and Mark every thing a latin and editorial phrase which Means what the author said a Stocky was wearing Black calluses m this he still most of his hair and most of whal be has is he moves like a halfback and has a voice and accent which could be most closely approximated to that of actor Jose god is not he and the worlds highest paid philosopher thinks he con prove january 1978 daily Magazine ideas Are his business and he was generous Wil them i think the combination of problems the human race now faces pollution of the the Ocean Energy population massive episodes of with the possibility that some Nuy Kluck la going to get hold of an atomic thing there is a Combina Tion of problems that 1 dont think National government in their present separate state Are going to be Able to those things wont catch up with 1 i think the world in which 1 Wai bom and in which 1 lived most of my life and in which i will die had its discomfort and difficulties but no real threat to ones health and sanity and i think my children he has four sons and my grand children Are going to face those threats unless the human which has realty managed pretty Well on the whole these Are All problems that can be solved by human of the modern course of Adler hid a Brus que dismissal Henry steels commager has an excellent article saying the american College is a saying its half High school and half College and should be its absolutely in my up to the Bachelor of arts which should be issued at there should be no vocational training purely Liberal if you want to learn go to night school after you or if you want to learn go to a night dont do that in your Basic of course the vested the major colleges such As Harvard and Yale and giving up their colleges to Lead to a More rational form of education is Adler is a protean his personal bibliography lists 135 books books books in articles and he Flandi us greatest satisfaction la writing us own hts the work be i doing Al Aspen ugh on his list of me conceded his pupils there Lor the most fat they Are Rich he they Are also leaders in our the presidents of members of the members of the not Mem Bers of the top its those people whose minds weve got to do some thing with in the first opening their to the problems we face is a very important in not saying we  do something about everyone the Equality of to which i firmly does not exclude the inequality of were All but some Are some Are some Are some Are some live some live a lot of people think inequality excludes there both the inequality to the Equality is specific it belongs to members of the its the most difficult idea of the world the major work in going to do in the next few years is to Clear up the idea of there is another work the drawing  with Aquinas has involved Bun Witt the Muots greatest concern the proof of the existence of Adler was asked after his years of he had reached any belief in god of his he hesitated i do be said i i know All the proofs that have been most of them have some flaw in Ive developed a proof thai 1 think comes very near to being but theres a flaw in whether or not a flawless proof of gods existence can be done i dont know but in certainly going to do what lean in for what he and it to Adler to Well the tag of worlds highest paid philosopher he acknowledges but i  be if i were in a he its because in associated with the Britannica and Ether institutions that can afford to in the highest paid Phila opher not As 1 am a philosopher who i  there to any philosopher who to bring paid adequately for being a Adler dust Mart my to be a the of new i enjoyed it he ii i haunt read John Stuart Mill and read some Plato i would have gone on being a u might have ruined my the stars and stripes Poge 13