About
The Great Books Foundation is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization founded in 1947 by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins to advance liberal education through the reading and discussion of great texts. The foundation publishes the Junior Great Books series for K-9 and the adult Great Books Discussion Program, which organizes classic texts from philosophy, history, science, and literature into themed reading sets. The Shared Inquiry method — discussion based on interpretive questions about the text — is central to all programs. Homeschool families use the foundation's materials for formal Socratic seminars, co-op discussion groups, and independent study of the Western canon.
Signature products
- Adult Great Books Program
- Junior Great Books
- Shared Inquiry Discussion Method
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