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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UNCW

Plato Society

What is PLATO?

A collective of inquisitive individuals seeking intellectual, cultural and social interactions, and personal growth integrated into an academic environment.

PLATO’s Purpose

ENGAGEMENT
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

– Edward Bond

 

ENRICHMENT

Through art and science in their broadest senses, it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life; and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
– Frederick Sanger

 

EDU-TAINMENT

The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
– Jacques Barzum

 

EXPANSION

Life finds the purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

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