Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato

The university is reviewing courses under new rules restricting teaching about race and gender. Administrators told a ...
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Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review

A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning ...
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University bans philosophy professor from teaching about Plato because it’s too gay

A professor at Texas A&M University was allegedly told to stop teaching Plato in an introductory philosophy course because of ...

Quote of the day by Plato: “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness, but direct them to it by what..."

Plato, the influential ancient Greek philosopher, advocated for a gentle approach to education. He believed that learning ...

Why poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal believed Plato’s ideas contribute to intellectual stagnation

Iqbal thought that a human being’s creative spirit was weakened by turning their attention away from the realities of life ...
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Apparently, Plato is too nonbinary to be taught at this Texas college

At least 200 courses in Texas A&M University’s College of Arts and Sciences catalogue have been canceled or flagged by university leadership for featuring gender- or -race-related content — and, as it ...
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Texas A&M deems Plato unnecessary for approved thought

Texas A&M has decided that Plato is not to be taught, a determination that suggests the problem is not ancient philosophy but ...