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**Begin with discussion of your valedictory speeches.
**Discuss: "All education is moral education."
**Dorothy Sayers and Leo Strauss--What does education do for us?
--Is there a tie between education and civilization?
--Civilization as "inheritance" and as "process."
**Background on Socrates:
--a picture gallery;
--Who was Socrates?
**If time permits, begin discussion of "Apology" and the educational value of meeting Socrates.
**For next week:
----->Re-read "The Apology", then read Chapter 1 of Pojman.
----->Write a page (typed, preferably)--It's sometimes hard to come to certainty about why Plato composed and left us the "Dialogues." By inclusion, the same is true of the "Apology." What do YOU think Plato saw in Socrates that prompted Plato to remember Socrates (lovingly?) and to honor his mentor by crafting this version of Socrates' defense at the trial. Why is Socrates different from the cranky old uncle that shows up at family gatherings and makes everyone uncomfortable with peculiar reminiscences, raging biases and "uncensored" remarks, not to mention nosy and embarrassing questions. Support your theory with some kind of evidence.
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