Philosophy of Education

During the Civil War, schooling was disrupted for many whites, and many schools, especially in the south, were destroyed. (Cremin 316) During the first half of the nineteenth century, the percentage of while children enrolled in school increased dramatically. The practice spread throughout the Midwest, and public schooling existed in the south, but only until…

Socrates did not write “Apology”. Socrates did not actually write anything, It was his friend Plato that wrote and documented Socrates’s speeches and dialogs. The “Apology” supposes to be an accurate account by Plato of Socrates’s trial before the Athenian jury in 399BCE. The trial began with the prosecutors presenting their case against Socrates before…

In the Euthyphro dialogue, Socrates and Euthyphro converse about what piety or holiness is. This question comes up when Euthyphro revealed to Socrates that he is in court to prosecute his father for murder. This situation where a son accuses his own father of murder shocked the Athenians including Socrates, however, Euthyphro still believes that…

“If I wanted to predict your happiness, and I could know only one thing about you, I wouldn’t want to know your gender, religion, health, or income. I’d want to know about your social network – about your friends and family and the strength of the bonds with them”. (Review, Goleman, McKee, George, and Ibarra,…