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 ...

Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, profoundly shaped the way humans think about life, ethics, and ...

Socrates, for example, wrote nothing. His teachings were recorded by his close friends and a few contemporaries. Which of these, if any, are accurate? Which are not? By what methodology did Cummings ...

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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