Third Post Aristotle: An Analysis and Evaluation Like Plato, Aristotle both reflects and transcends his time. His great aim in life, his all-consuming passion, was to understand. J.H. Randall, to whose interpretation I owe a great deal, thinks that Aristotle’s mind may have been the most intense in history—as Randall puts it, ”his was a…

Second Post Plato: An Analysis and Evaluation It cannot be an accident that nearly all of Plato’s works take the form of dialogues, but neither can we assume that the philosophical perspectives were there first and the dialogues were chosen as the best way to communicate them.  What we do know is that, with Socrates,…

Without being too flippant, I understand that the very title of this blog may at worst bring a “groan” from some and at best will no doubt attract interest from a lesser number of readers but, hopefully, some with experience in and/or curiosity about the world of teaching and learning—the subject that dominated the first…