1. What is the difference between the approaches of Socrates and Aristotle? 2. Why do educationists consider philosophy a 'weak and woolly' field? 3. What do you understand by the term "Perennialism', in the context of the given comprehension passage? 4. Were Plato's beliefs about education democratic? h 5. Why did Aquinas propose a model of education which did not lay much emphasis on facts?
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1. Socrates differed from Aristotle in that Socrates relied heavily on enquiring dialogue for his learning and teaching. Aristotle on the other hand published his works. He also founded institutions of higher learning.
2. Many educationalists consider it a weak and woolly field since it is too far removed from the practical applications of the real world to be useful.
3. Perennialism holds that one should teach those things deemed to be of everlasting importance to all people everywhere, namely principles and reasoning, not just facts (which are apt to change over time), and that one should teach first about people, not machines or techniques.
4. Plato believed that talent and intelligence is not distributed genetically and thus is be found in children born to all classes, although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.
5. facts do change with the changing times, hence, they are not of the utmost importance when aiming for holistic education.
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What is the difference between the approaches of Socrates and Aristotle?
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