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What Can We Learn from Plato about Intellectual Character Education?
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Kotsonis, Alkis – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
In the "Republic," Plato developed an educational program through which he trained young Athenians in desiring truth, without offering them any knowledge-education. This is not because he refused to pass on knowledge but because he considered knowledge of the Good as an ongoing research program. I show this by tracing the steps of the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Values Education, Educational Theories, Teaching Methods