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Re: Why Dehaene is Wrong
Posted:
Nov 5, 2012 1:44 PM
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On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Wayne Bishop <wbishop@calstatela.edu>wrote:
Plato's Academy? Let's see, now, how did its student population compare
> with your average state university? Better, maybe, your average competent
> high school graduate who is not college-bound? Able to get over Pons
> Asinorum?
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The student population? Hardly worth an answer.
Plato lies in the roots of liberal education: and education worthy of a
free man. The population of Athens at its height was probably about
200,000, of which maybe 25,000 were citizens---and thus "free men". The
notion that such a small population could have supported an academy
populated by students whose minds were of the quality of Euclid, Aristotle,
or Plato is simply laughable.
--Louis A. Talman
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Metropolitan State College of Denver
<http://rowdy.mscd.edu/%7Etalmanl>
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