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The Great Books College of the Midwest invites you and your students to explore these opportunities to observe and participate in learning by inquiry. Please join us for some Shimer di·a·lec·tic, noun, from Greek dialektos, conversation 1. Discussion and reasoning by dialogue as a method of intellectual investigation; specifically: the Socratic techniques of exposing false beliefs and eliciting truth; 2. the Platonic investigation of the eternal ideas. 1. WEBCASTS OF SHIMER CLASSES Now available online - anytime Ovid's Metamorphoses
to read more about the Humanities
Now available online - anytime Darwin's On the Origin of Species
to read more about the Natural Sciences
Now available online - anytime Historical Feminist Readings by Anthony,
Stanton, and Truth
to read more about the Social Sciences 2. ONLINE DISCUSSION PROJECT Talk about a Great Book from the comfort your own desk. Visit virtually, Shimer-style, by joining an online discussion of Shimer. You might hear back from an admission officer, but you might just as well hear from a student or faculty member. You can also see what people considering Shimer have had to say about us. | 
