May 2019
Revisiting Public Education
There is too much talk about reforming our education system and too little discussion of what education is, and its particular purpose in a democracy.
In antiquity, only the children of the ruling class received an education, generally through a well-known teacher. We first encounter discussions of how to teach in the ancient Greek accounts written by Plato of how his own teacher, Socrates, taught. This was an unusual method at the time, and is still too rare even today. S more...