{"date":"August 31","id":"08-31","intro":["Emerson was included in Dr. Eliot’s recent selection of the world’s ten greatest educators of all time. Here the great thinker discusses this force within man that makes him a scholar."],"minutes":23,"readings":[{"author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","end":15,"start":5,"volume":5,"work":"American Scholar"}],"slug":"august-31","status":"proofread","title":"America’s Greatest Thinker","url":"/harvard-classics/august-31/","words":4680}