Who Was Aristotle?
3. Academy Life
Nowadays, learning involves teachers that are educated in a particular subject who then pass on their knowledge to their pupils. Classes are in a rigid format and teachers will generally follow a predetermined curriculum throughout. Education in Aristotle’s time, however, was very different.
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At Plato’s university, students and tutors would instead challenge each other on particular topics and debate them. It is very different from what students are used to today but the open method would likely have been beneficial to the great thinkers of the time. Aristotle didn’t take Platos position when he died because they didn’t agree on many topics.
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