David Perks was the founder of the East London Science School, which opened in 2013. He was the principal until retiring in 2021, and taught physics, philosophy, mathematics and astronomy. David is an enthusiast for teaching philosophy in schools and made ethics a compulsory part of the curriculum from Year 7. He now runs the Classical Philosophy Reading Group, which is encouraging people to read and discuss Plato’s Socratic dialogues, and has been running for a year discussing ideas from Plato’s theory of knowledge to Socrates quest to understand the nature of virtue. See previous discussions on Classical Philosophy YouTube.