INNOVATIVE TRAINING: MORE THAN SMOKE AND MIRRORS

摘要

Historically, the debate over how people learn stretches back to philosophical differences found in Greek and Roman theories of learning and education. Greek philosophers, namely Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, valued knowledge acquisition and training the mind for the discovery of truth. Plato argued that truth was to be discovered through self-reflection, while Aristotle believed that knowledge could be obtained through use of the senses and scientific inquiry. Socrates was credited with the development of the dialectic method and believed knowledge was best obtained through debate and discourse. While these philosophers took different stances on uncovering the nature of learning, at their core, they all indicated that learning is an intellectual pursuit involving the training of the mind.