Ignition for Education

  • Does the Creation Paradigm suggest a good/evil duality?

    Are goodness and evil sound moral categories? The Creation Paradigm posits creation as definitive of goodness, of “the good.” But what about evil. Can it be pinpointed as, according to the Creation Paradigm, goodness can be? Does it exist per se? Is the Creation Paradigm dualistic? I’ve gone some way to answering these questions already.…

  • How Learning Begins, and Why Children Do the Maddening Things They Do

    In Plato’s dialogue Meno, Socrates proves, to the satisfaction of Meno, that learning would be impossible without innate knowledge. We would not recognize truth when we encounter it unless the knowledge of it was already in us. In other words, what we think of as learning is actually recollection of what we already, in some…