Science & Math Tutoring

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Akademeia expresses my interest in the life of the mind with its habits of questioning, respectful dialogue and insistence on evidence and logic.

Science and Math Tutoring is my small business which derives from a life of science research and education. In my activities as a tutor, I do my best to keep in mind the ideals of Akademeia.
National Concerns derive from my commitment to the principles on which our republic is founded, among which is our pledge of "justice for all."

Global Concerns derive from the existential issues which put the very survival of our species at risk.

I try to make my writings on domestic and global concerns consistent with the traditions of Akademeia.

So what's with Akademeia? Well this is perhaps a bit of a pretentious reference to the "golden age" of classical Greece, 200 years of wide ranging creative thought (roughly 500 B.C. to 300 B.C.) including politics, psychology, science and philosophy.

The English translation of Akademeia is Academy (as in United States Military Academy at West Point). More generally Academy refers to an educational institution.

It seems that there was a legendary Greek hero, Akademos, who helped rescue Helen (of the Greek City State Sparta), whose (perhaps willing) abduction by the Trojan prince Paris was supposed to have sparked the Trojan War between Greece and Troy. Troy was a city in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) across the Aegean Sea from Greece. Helen of Sparta is better known as Helen of Troy. All of this is supposed to have happened about 1200 B.C.

Now, continuing this long winded etymology (word derivation), it seems that Akademos's
name became attached to a park-like area in "golden-age" Athens which came to be called Akademeia.

Long after the Trojan War (legend has it) Akademeia, the park, began to be a gathering place for philosophers, for teachers and students (end of etymology).