Recent Posts Tagged With 'socrates'

• Socrates Would Definitely Be Turning In His Grave

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 06:29 in education, greece, socrates

  I previously posted about education in Greece here, but some recent reading has made me want to post again. The reference to Socrates is because 2.500 years ago he was teaching people by asking them questions and encouraging them to think and find th...

• Socrates would be turning in his grave!

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 06:15 in socrates

  I wanted to write something about the education system here in Greece. It seems to me so ironic - tragic, even - that the country that produced some of the greatest minds in history, and, in Socrates, one of the greatest teachers, should now have one...