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...out to Meno that true opinion is just as good a guide as knowledge. Imagine two people: one knows how to get to Thessaly, while that other just has a true opinion about it. Both of them will be able to find their way there. Why, then, wonders Meno, do people think that knowledge is more valuable than true opinion? This is one occasion on which Socrates breaks with his...

...out more about The Open University’s History qualifications. [A photo of the Queen visiting the OU in 1979. ©John Hunt] An image of the Queen taken by former FASS cartographer John Hunt has been selected to appear in an exhibition at Kensington Palace this summer. Taken during the monarch’s 10th-anniversary visit to The Open University in 1979, it captures her up...

...out about The Open University's History courses and qualifications 1885 Indian National Congress founded initially as a moderate body to press for greater opportunities for all Indians irrespective of religion. Demands include end of discriminatory practices in employment, greater public spending on education and lower taxes on the mass of poverty-stricken peasantry. 1905...