Joseph Agassi is known primarily among fellow academics as an
exemplary historian and philosopher of science; an ardent critic
and disciple of Karl Popper; a critical admirer of the work of
Michael Polanyi; and a Socratic fly with the "sting of a bee" for
all those who wear the intellectual fashions of the day. To most of
Agassi's students he is known primarily as an exemplary model of
the Socratic teacher. The question of most urgency for educators
today who care about the intellectual development of students is:
How do we make ready our educational institutions for more Socratic
teachers? The philosophical or theoretical question is: Why do we
want Socratic teachers? In outline, of the many of Agassi's
educational essays selected for this book, Agassi answers those
questions: authoritarianism (or anti-democracy) blocks the
democratic reform of educational institutions where Socratic
teachers and students could find a safe haven; and, Socratic
teaching is the main anti-dote to authoritarianism. The removal of
authoritarianism from education also removes the hazard that
education has become to students; to their happiness, creativity,
and dignity as autonomous individuals.
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