Plato and the Promise of College

In a New York Times Op-Ed, Frank Bruni writes: [Freedom and Citizenship] assumes that these kids, like any others, are hungry for big ideas. And it wagers that tugging them into sophisticated discussions will give them a fluency and confidence that could be the difference between merely getting to college and navigating it successfully, all the way to completion, which for poor kids is often the trickiest part of all.

 

By
Frank Bruni
August 04, 2014