Encyclopedia Britannica: All the world at your fingertips Americans are awash in information. Most of us walk around with devices that give us instant access to all the knowledge in human history ...

An advert in a 1965 issue of Playboy for the Encyclopedia Britannica’s Great Books set. Patti McConville / Alamy Categorising knowledge Hutchins and Adler believed that the Syntopicon presented ...

“The aim of education is wisdom,” writes Robert M. Hutchins, editor of Encyclopedia Britannica’s Great Book series. But is that what contemporary college students attain in college?