Platonic ideas recycled by Gove. 29.11.2010.

Source: The Times. 29. 11. 2010.

Michael Gove, the Minister for Education has praised phonetics as a way of teaching children to read rather than the 'look and say' way favoured by the Labour Government. This has been compared by some to a return to the method described by Plato.

Plato also believed that children should be taught poetry, and history as a way of inculcating moral responsibility.



Plato's prescription

(poetry, phonetics) praised,

given out by Gove.