ABSTRACT
This was initially presented as a conference paper at the first UFHRD con ference held in Kingston University in the UK in 2000, and then slightly revised at the HRD conference (Lee 2001a) when it was judged to be one of the top 10 outstanding papers presented that year, and so also got published in the Cutting Edge series (Lee 2001b). Interestingly, AHRD first rejected it as a conference paper because of dated references. Luckily for me, someone supervising the submissions process reversed that decision, recognising that the references to ancient Greek philosophers still had some small place in the modern world. This paper was then chosen by Jean Woodall for inclu sion in a special issue of HRDI (Lee 2001c) and won the Monica M. Lee Award given by the AHRD for the best paper published in HRDI in 2001. AHRD had honoured me tremendously by naming the award after me but I hasten to add that I had nothing to do with the setting up of the awards or with any of the judging for it. Indeed both the naming of the award and the winning of it with this paper came as a very great surprise to me. At the time of publication this paper challenged a lot of deeply held beliefs and was much discussed. It has reappeared in several compilations since then.
