' Plato founded the first university '...

Plato, born in approximately 428 BC, living until 347 BC, was one of Socrates’ brightest students and went on to become the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the entire Western world. ........................................ He is considered to be the most pivotal figure in the development of the Western tradition of philosophy. ........................................ He summed up humankind’s eternal quest for knowledge in his saying: “Man is a being in search of meaning.” ........................................ On his own quest for knowledge of the universe and human nature, he came to the realization that “The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.”...................................... from Greek Reporter