Archive for August, 2009

Learning Our Lessons

August 31st, 2009
Learning Our Lessons

There is a very old and well-known phrase that says history never repeats. There are a lot of reasons why history never seems to repeat itself and some of those reasons are aesthetic. Events happen at certain points in time and even if you try and recreate those events with the same people a short time later you will probably never get the same results. The baseball player who hit the big home run last year is physically not the same as time goes » Read more: Learning Our Lessons

How Can our History Change Their Future?

August 30th, 2009
How Can our History Change Their Future?

How Can Our History Change Their Future?

History gets a bad rap in school. Many of us have memories of history class being taught by rote memorization of facts and dates and names with little or no application to our daily lives. No wonder its considered boring and dull. Anytime we are expected to simply recite and repeat bare data for the sole purpose of passing a test, that information is unlikely to have any lasting chang » Read more: How Can our History Change Their Future?

World History

August 19th, 2009
World History

The Greek Philosophers

The names of the three most important Greek philosophers, in order of their dates of birth and also their influence, are:

Socrates (469-399 BC)
Plato (c. 429-c. 347 BC)
Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Socrates taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle. Together they created the foundations of Western philosophy. Use your visual memory and imagine them meditating in a health S » Read more: World History