Jacob Klein, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Jacob Klein

Jacob Klein (1899 – 1978) came to St. John's College, Annapolis, in 1938, and remained a Tutor there until his death. He served as Dean from 1949 to 1958. He was author of three books: Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, A Commentary on Plato's Meno, and Plato's Trilogy: Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman. A selection of his lectures and essays have been published in Jacob Klein: Lectures and Essays.

The Knowing Soul

By Jacob Klein|2021-04-24T19:34:24-05:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Aristotle, Featured, Jacob Klein, Liberal Learning, Plato, St. John's College|

The great vehicle of liberal learning is discussion, in which begetting, questioning, refuting, and again questioning take place… What I have to speak about, briefly and in a most elementary way, is what both learning and teaching mean and do not mean. Learning and teaching are mysterious processes. To understand them fully would mean to [...]