In our Book Club series, we will be discussing The Great Tradition, an anthology edited by Richard M. Gamble; this work collects writings from the great minds of the West, and all of the selections center around the idea of education. 

In our first episode, we discuss selections from Book 5, 6 and 7 of Plato's Republic. We discuss the allegory of the cave and how it connects to education. We also discuss the tripartite soul and other features of education for the polis that Plato outlines in the Republic.