Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Bacchus and the Collegiate Scholar
In his book Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators, William Woodward tells us that in 1414, Guarino da Verona had this to say about the state of student life at the University of Padua: The tutelary deity of the Paduan students is Bacchus: they celebrate his feast, not annually, but daily, and indeed more than once a day. How different from the School of Socrates or the Academy of Plato! p. 9 Woodward went on to say that it wasn’t Continue Reading…
October 11, 2016