GMoL S2E12 Greeks with Donald Clark
Great Minds on Learning
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Socrates, the Athenian Pupil
Plato was a pupil of socrates, who tried to formulate the ideal society. Founded the platonist school of thought and a school called the academy. He ran his academy for nearly 900 years, which is almost every university that exists now. His belief in reason comes with a contempt for the real world. Sisky is quite scholastic, unworldly as it were.
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