Pizzalato, B: Education, the Human Person and Truth

With the rise in new ways of educating, for exampleover the internet, there has been a loss of theimportance of person to person contact in theeducational experience. It is often debated what isthe best way to teach? What is the best way to learn?Which are the best books to read? The answers tothese questions are of the utmost importance. Theseare indeed philosophical questions which needphilosophical answers. These questions have to dowith the nature of education and the nature of thehuman person. What is the best means for helpingpersons come to knowledge of truth. The answer tothis question is important for philosophers,teachers, students, parents and institutions that areserious about education. An answer to this questionis what constitutes a portion of this book. GiovanniReale states, "The modern age is the most typicalexpression of a culture wholly based on writing,considered as the preeminent medium of every form ofknowledge." This is precisely why a reneweddiscussion on this issue must be raised. Shouldwriting be the prime means? A defense must be madeof the primacy of oral dialectic as a means ofassisting persons to come to knowledge of truth.