Socrates, Plato and Education Spending

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Socrates, Plato and Education Spending
Unattributed, Inside Higher Ed, 2015/02/16

Dave Brat has it wrong historically, textually, and pragmatically. Brat said, "“The greatest thinkers in Western civ were not products of education policy,” he said. “Socrates trained Plato on a rock and then Plato trained in Aristotle roughly speaking on a rock. So, huge funding is not necessary..." Glenn Raymond Morrow writes. More...