"Education is properly understood as the care and perfection of the soul. Excellence (arete) is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue." ~ Richard Gamble on Plato's view of education, The Great Tradition
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Therein lies the key to why I hated my grad school classes...they don't get what education is or what it means to be an educator! I'm gonna have to blog about this; don't be surprised if I link to this blog post in the very near future.
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