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Mortimer Adler was a philosopher and writer, as well as a critic and an editor. With his philosophical background formed by such individuals as Homer, Plato, Saint Augustine, David Hume, and Sigmund Freud, he felt his views were a direct contrast to John Dewey. His most popular books were: How To Read A Book and The Art of Getting a Liberal Education in 1940. He skipped his grad work, and went right into writing his dissertation on how to measure music appreciation. Adler noted that the 1900s was the first century that the United States had public school through the twelfth grade, and that "democracy [had] come into its own" in this century, with equal rights being more diligently applied in our nation. Some other points he made were that 10% of age eligible kids made it to high school the beginning of the 20th century, and that in our present time frame, approximately 100% attend, although, many do not complete secondary schooling for we have a "quantity versus quality" mentality. His observations led him to conclude that there was dissatisfac