Plato's outed

December 6, 1996

Glasgow University students clearly have little time for the Platonic ideal. A poster put up by the Campaign for the Highest Education, promoting Plato's view that "The life without examination is a life that can hardly be lived at all" has been mysteriously defaced, with the removal of the letters `"out".

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