... more specifically at the post-secondary level, and more importantly it has become essential to examine what is being taken away, and potentially lost, from the original or ideal view of education. Perhaps in this debate it is necessary to clarify the meaning of "education" to further a logical debate. Education is the knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process or also an instructive or enlightening experience1. This idea of education through enlightenment and instruction seems somewhat ideal by today's standards but this ideal did once exist long before our arrival, in the time of the Athenian School of Thought. It was here that ancient philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and Pythagorus gathered under ideal classical architecture to discuss and debate2. These men were, and still are, considered great thinkers, and although time has elapsed and so many things have changed, students continue to study their ...

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