If you’re reading this and grew up going to Western schools, you might remember your teachers following this basic formula: Explain a subject from the blackboard, ask the kids questions that test ...

Today, NPR Ed kicks off a yearlong series: 50 Great Teachers. We're starting this celebration of teaching with Socrates, the superstar teacher of the ancient world. He was sentenced to death more than ...

I often annoy my wife. Of course, I annoy her for the typical reasons that any man would normally annoy his wife, but I also annoy her for another reason. When she makes a statement or indicates that ...

While Jesus Christ and Socrates might have lived in different times and different places, both men ended up remembered for their philosophical teachings but hardly anything is said about the ...

It's been 2,400 years since he taught his last class, but the teaching method Socrates created, and that bears his name, lives on today. 50 Great Teachers: Socrates, The Ancient World's Teaching ...

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