Our current culture has grown out of the attitudes, ideas and institutions of ancient Greece. Academy, lyceum, gymnasium, school, educator, grammarian, and many other foundational concepts of today’s educational system were inherited from them, therefore it is understandable why the understanding of the concept of education should be sought in ancient Greece. The idea of … Read more
During the 5th and 4th centuries BC, rhetoric, or the art of beautiful and correct speaking, was considered one of the important civic skills in Athens, and Isocrates was renowned as one of the greatest orators of classical Greece. His principles became the foundation of education in most European schools until the 18th century. Isocrates … Read more
Is it possible to have a society without community, without some kind of family? Will the traditional family disappear and be replaced by some other form of community? To find the answer, we first need to reexamine what family is and whether it has always meant what we understand by that term today. With the … Read more
It is interesting to observe the education system as a system and compare ‘systemic’ and ‘reductionist’ perspectives. From a reductionist perspective, the whole is the sum of its parts, and in order to solve problems, the parts need to be studied separately and “fixed.” Considering the education system, it is easy to see that problems … Read more
Regardless of what we think about it, education has become irreversibly intertwined with technology. No classroom is complete without a ubiquitous digital projector, and every teacher has a laser pointer at hand. Undoubtedly, PowerPoint is an application that can create both engaging and monotonous content to an equal extent. Online maps, interactive videos, and gamification … Read more
