Tag: Socrates
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‘Frail Absolute’ Book Not For Faint Hearted
Plato’s The Republic challenged the way humankind thought. Now, a immigrant from then-Communist Hungary is posing a similar challenge: Is perception reality, why can one individual’s experience of reality differ so radically from another’s, and how can humankind’s search for a deity be what ultimately separates us from each other and from Nature? Heady stuff,…
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Misconception That Education Is End Of Road
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” -Socrates There is a misconception that education is the end of a road. On the contrary, it is merely the beginning. For many of us, youth is taken up with those things we feel we need to learn and less so with…