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The Corruption of Youth - 2400 Years Ago
p3skyking
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In the ancient city state of Athens, a new method of teaching was instituted by one man. This method was held outside and did not require students to memorize or recite by rote.
Answers were not as important as were the questions.
Throughout history, autocratic governments have disliked questions. Magnificent Athens was no different. It was decreed that Socrates drink a mixture of hemlock for his crime. His students bade him to flee, but he was an Athenian who realized for society to work, it's laws must be obeyed. In 399 BC he drank the poison.
Socrates was one of the greatest minds of Western Civilization. Plato was his student. Aristotle was a student of Plato. Alexander the Great was a student of Aristotle.
Further study:
(What his method was)
http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/socratic-teaching/606
(Who he was)
https://www.biography.com/people/socrates-9488126?_escaped_fragment_=
Answers were not as important as were the questions.
Throughout history, autocratic governments have disliked questions. Magnificent Athens was no different. It was decreed that Socrates drink a mixture of hemlock for his crime. His students bade him to flee, but he was an Athenian who realized for society to work, it's laws must be obeyed. In 399 BC he drank the poison.
Socrates was one of the greatest minds of Western Civilization. Plato was his student. Aristotle was a student of Plato. Alexander the Great was a student of Aristotle.
Further study:
(What his method was)
http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/socratic-teaching/606
(Who he was)
https://www.biography.com/people/socrates-9488126?_escaped_fragment_=
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