The History of Education - and the giants we all rely on
Photo on <a href="http://foter.com/re/00cf88">Foter.com</a> Over the course of some past weeks, I had the delightful challenge of reading and revisiting the great giants that have contributed to our Education. We all have to refresh our memories about the colossal contributions that many scholars have bequeathed to humanity. The idea that we are more than the sum of our biological components has never failed to disquiet the minds of great thinkers. From the Greeks – Socrates, Plato and Aristotle – we have received the important legacy of man’s inherent ability to access knowledge. Through reflection, circumspection and perception, the belief that we are all born differently is firmly grounded in that legacy. Later, we received the legacy of instrumentality and the Romans conquered the world based on their need for minds that focused on a trade. The vocational tradition was then born and probably inspired much later behavioristic approaches. When relig