The second part of the essay by former governorship aspirant in the gubernatorial elections in 2015 in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti. Read the first entry here.
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living
from the dead” Aristotle (384-322BC).
“Training is everything. The peach was once a
bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with college education” Mark
Twain (1835-1910)
We
open the second phase of our discourse of education with two great quotes from
two great minds. Aristotle and Mark Twain need no introduction. Aristotle was
an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, who together with Plato and
Socrates laid the foundation for what is today referred to as Western
Philosophy. His contributions cut across logic, metaphysics, mathematics,
physics, biology, botany, ethics, agriculture, medicine, and politics. He was a
student of Plato, who was in turn, a student of Socrates. He is often referred
to as the father of logic. One of his theories that I like so much is called
syllogism. Simply put, syllogism refers to a sound reasoning that says that “if
A is equal to B and B is equal to C, then A is equal to C.” To Aristotle, to
the extent that the premises of an argument are true, then the conclusions are
guaranteed to be true.