Quote of the day: Ancient Greek philosopher Plato, a student of Socrates, believed true wisdom stems from acknowledging what ...

Can children truly learn under pressure? Plato believed the best education comes not from force, but from curiosity. Discover ...

Explore Plato's life, his philosophical impact, and his travels to Sicily, along with key ideas on justice and the ideal ...

We often think of education as something that happens inside classrooms, ends with a certificate, and is mostly about passing ...

Sometimes, even the newest ideas have ancient roots. Take, for example, neoconservatism, the radical philosophy that supposedly guided the Bush administration’s ill-fated foreign policy decisions. Who ...

Rebecca Goldstein has written a timely book about our own age by taking us back to an earlier age—that of the ancient Greeks. She wants to know what the works of Plato can teach us about the life ...

How can you teach a philosophy class without mentioning Plato? Texas A&M University professor Martin Peterson is trying to figure that out. Plato was a father of Western philosophy, famously a student ...

A professor had to change his syllabus after it ran afoul of Texas A&M's policy on "race and gender ideology." ...