We are thrilled to announce that Philosophy and Education alum Avi I. Mintz, Ph.D. 2008, has published a new book titled, Plato: Images, Aims, and Practices of Education (Springer International Publishing, 2018) as part of the series, SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education. The book "organizes [the author's] discussion of education in the Platonic Corpus around Plato’s images, both the familiar — the cave, the gadfly, the torpedo fish, and the midwife — and the less familiar — the intellectual aviary, the wax tablet, and the kindled fire. These educational images reveal that, for Plato, philosophizing is inextricably linked to learning; that is, philosophy is fundamentally an educational endeavor."

Avi I. Mintz is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Tulsa.

To learn more about Professor Mintz's book, please visit Springer.