A first-of-its-kind national trial shows that public Montessori preschool students enter kindergarten with stronger reading, ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...

A Socratic seminar is a student-led discussion format used primarily in middle and high school classrooms where participants engage deeply with a text—ranging from literature to songs or artwork—prior ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published Nov. 18, 2015, the 30th anniversary of the Socrates grounding. It has been lightly edited for the 40th anniversary. It was a quintessential ...

Empedocles was born in the Greek city of Acragas (also known in Latin as ‘Agrigentum’ and in Italian as ‘Agrigento’), which is located on the southern coast of Sicily, around 490 BC. Empedocles is ...

There are arguably few ancient thinkers as influential in their domains as Socrates, Aristotle, and Confucius. Emerging from different cultures or epochs in time, these three remarkable teachers ...

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge. The experiment, by two ...

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge. The experiment, by two ...

At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those grades will be higher than ever. Around the same time, students will hand ...