Some years ago I read a charming story told by a school teacher in England. At Christmas she supervised the construction of a manger scene in the corner of the classroom. It delighted the students to set up a model barn, cover the floor with real straw and then arrange the clay figures of Mary,…

Fifth Post Plato and Aristotle: Application And now it remains to ask about all that has been said, “so what?”  What difference might it make to the here and now? So from the interpretations I have offered, allow me to try to draw some implications for our common interests in teaching and learning.  I think…

Fourth Post Plato and Aristotle: A Synthesis The question, now, is whether it is possible to develop any kind of synthesis of the views of these two significant thinkers—that is, to discover some commonalities in Plato and Aristotle beyond, or perhaps through, their differences that might have some permanent value to our common interest in…