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In common speech, the word individual most often refers to a person, or, by analogy, to any specific object in a group of things. For example, you the reader are an individual person, and a lawn is made of individual blades of grass. Originally, in the 15th century or earlier, the term meant "indivisible" as still used in statistics (see below), but from the seventeenth century on the term indicated separateness, as in individualism.
In metaphysics and statistics, the word individual, while sometimes meaning "a person", more typically describes any numerically singular thing. Used in many contexts, both 'Socrates' and 'the Moon' denote individuals; 'grapefruit' and 'redness' (generally) do not. 'Individual' as a piece of philosophical jargon is much-bandied and often to be found in the company of particular -- indeed, often treated as synonymous with 'particular' (though one wonders if abstract particulars can count as individuals) -- and contrasted with 'universal'.
Source: [wikipedia: individual]

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	Amorality and the Philosophy of Education
		what does the concept of amorality mean for our practices of education and responsibility? (by l.f. le sage)

	Essays on Philosophy of Education
		links to online essays and papers by rick garlikov concerning philosophical topics, particularly philosophy of education and ethics (moral philosophy).

	The Evils of Inductivism
		inductivism, the long-discredited yet ubiquitous and entrenched educational theory, which is based upon the long dead theory of epistemology and scientific methodology, actually rejects explanatory teaching as unnatural.

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