One thing that is clear in book 3 of Plato’s Republic is that he is not an advocate of such modern ideas as free speech or academic freedom in regard to education. His primary concern is the education of his guardians, the ruling class/protector of the state, but the qualities they embody. Following this, he […]
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On 21 October 1869, William Edward Dodd was born in Clayton, North Carolina. His father, John Dodd, was from a hard-scrabble clan of respectable yeoman. His mother, Evelyn Creech Dodd, was from a modestly affluent family of antebellum slave owners. After the war, the Creech family was still wealthy enough to give Evelyn and John […]
The Hippy Counter-Culture is “a culture so radically disaffiliated from the mainstream assumptions of our society that it scarcely looks to many as a culture at all, but takes on the alarming appearance of a barbaric intrusion”, and starting in 1960’s that is exactly what it was.(Roszak, 42) In a time where technology and machines […]