What is the essence of an excellent education?

Why do some Arizona schools have hefty wait lists while other schools are closing their doors?

What causes thousands of Arizona parents to wait for hours in the 100 degree Arizona heat to drop off and pick up their children 180 days a year?

First, let’s start with what education is not. Education is not merely information transfer where the teacher lectures, the student takes copious notes and does their best to regurgitate it, and where the “best students” are able to parrot this information better than their peers. If it were, teachers would be superfluous, and we could simply utilize ChatGPT as the primary teacher in every classroom.

Perhaps something different occurs in the best classrooms, something higher.

This begins with the teacher.

In the Republic by Plato, which is ultimately a dialogue about education, Socrates says the student will not be free until a few things have already happened. First, the teacher must care for the best part of himself, for a teacher cannot impart what they don’t already possess. The teacher must be........

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