our friends the rocks

I just had a curious reading experience. Reading a good New York Times article about teaching philosophy to children, I came upon the line

"He is not the first philosopher to work with children. In the 1970s, Matthew Lipman. . . "

and I read the symbol cluster "1970s" as the word "agora." That word doesn't appear in the article, but of course I was sort of looking for in-context Greek words, in an article about philosophy. Plus the interesting observation that we invent words from charact...