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The “Symposium” describes a dinner party of ancient Athenians, including Socrates, the teacher of Plato, and Aristophanes, a prize-winning writer of comic plays. Each guest gives a speech about love.

More than 2,500 years ago, Heraclitus argued that strife is the engine of history and human progress. From ancient ...

Socrates, an Athenian philosopher, pioneered the Socratic method of questioning to challenge assumptions about truth and ...

The wisdom of Greek thinkers has been in high demand in recent decades. Consider books that urge us to travel with Epicurus, follow Aristotle’s way or accompany Plato to the Googleplex. It was only a ...

Pericles teaching young Alcibiades, created in 1900. Author unknown. Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Alcibiades was a gifted politician and general, but, due to his unscrupulous behavior, he is ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...

Today, reading and writing are considered essential to function in modern society, but more than 2,400 years ago in Ancient Greece, the legendary philosopher Socrates was not a fan. Famous for never ...

Traditional public education and credentialing no longer prepare students for a rapidly changing, AI‑driven economy. This has long been the conclusion of Daniel Aglugub and has prompted the foundation ...

In Benjamin Franklin’s famous list of thirteen virtues toward personal perfection, he urges his readers to “Imitate Jesus and Socrates.” As a teacher, I try to live up to this call. We hear a lot ...

There are arguably few ancient thinkers as influential in their domains as Socrates, Aristotle, and Confucius. Emerging from different cultures or epochs in time, these three remarkable teachers ...