Jacque-Louis David's painting depicting the death of Socrates in prison about to drink hemlock given by his executioner. (Wikimedia Commons) In 1928, three years after the famed Scopes Trial over the ...

Socrates was one of the most renowned Greek philosophers of all time. Born in Athens circa 470 BCE, this ancient Greek philosopher laid the groundwork for Western philosophy, paving the way for ...

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 4 PM on Tuesday, January 18th. Please scroll down to view. On Tuesday, January 18, AEI’s Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey welcomed ...

Editor’s Note: Numerous instances of plagiarism have been discovered in Dan Kimber’s “Education Matters” column, which ran in the News- Press from September 2003 to September 2011. In those columns ...

When we talk about education, and about tutoring in particular, we often speak of the Socratic method. Often what we mean when we refer to that method is simply something like a question-and-answer ...

In a bleak, green-walled hall of California’s San Quentin Prison one day last week, an odd sort of jury—two murderers, one sex offender, assorted thieves and forgers—solemnly took their places at a ...

Alcibiades was born with pretty much everything. He was young and handsome and rich, the scion of one of Athens' most distinguished families, the Alcmaeonidae, who could trace their lineage back to ...

Metacognitive thinking, a methodology for mastering intellectually challenging material, is revolutionizing legal education. Metacognition empowers people to increase their mental capabilities by ...