Word: plato
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...society ever paid its taxes happily or escaped arguments over who should pay how much. More than two millenniums ago, Plato wrote in The Republic that "when there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income." It used to be a point of pride among most Americans that they acted like Plato's "just man." Throughout the first half of this century, the income tax system that started in 1913 worked well because it worked virtually by itself. Everybody grumbled, but something like 95% or more...
...education for an informed responsible life in our society." Thus the Redbook authors proposed, for example, that all students take a course called "Great Texts of Literature" in which the books would be selected from a list of "Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy." Reading these authors and learning the "core" of knowledge that was considered the foundation of liberal arts education did not mean that a student would commit to memory a small collection of finely crafted theories that explained away the world. Knowing a "core" of knowledge meant...
...education, at school and at home. The Yankelovich poll showed that 57% thought personal computers would enable children to read and to do arithmetic better Claims William Ridley, Control Data's vice president for education strategy: "If you want to improve youngsters one grade level in reading, our PLATO program with teacher supervision can do it up to four times faster and for 40% less expense than teachers alone...
...computer hardware lies the virtually limitless market for software, all those prerecorded programs that tell the willing but mindless computer what to do. These discs and cassettes range from John Wiley & Sons' investment analysis program for $59.95 (some run as high as $5,000) to Control Data's PLATO programs that teach Spanish or physics ($45 for the first lesson, $35 for succeeding ones) to a profusion of space wars, treasure hunts and other electronic games...
...books, laundry, ajar of Dippity Do. An experienced programmer at Control Data before she decided to have children, she now settles in at the computer right after breakfast, sometimes holding the baby in a sling. She starts by reading her computer mail, then sets to work converting a PLATO grammar program to a disc that will be compatible with Texas Instruments machines. "Midmorning I have to start paying attention to the three-year-old, because he gets antsy," says Hardinger. "Then at 11:30 comes Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, so that's when I usually get a whole...