It can be seen from both ancient and modern history, that they were few philosophers that held much of an influence on educational thinking than that of Plato, and in particular his ideals on education as described within his ‘Republic.’ His writings regarding education continue to be the highlight of debate to this very day. The community in which he envisioned, has continually motivated the way educational leaders think and express their views; and his studies paved the way for the educational foundations laid down in the now. It is with this said, that the proposed purpose of the essay is to discuss and examine Plato’s Theory of Education within the ‘Republic,’ whilst also considering its relation to his theory of the soul.
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He concluded that these three segments were what the people required in order to make up the society in which he desired. For example, depending on how the three segments of the soul had been arranged, depended on the class that each individual ended up living in. Hence, people were happy with the class they had been given because either way they were going to flourish as a somebody. It was here that Plato believed that education would make individuals well balanced people through the use of the three segments that were also well …show more content…
It was Plato’s way of stemming to the root of all human beings by insisting that they presented the same traits and functions as one another. In applying this concept, Plato assumed that every human being, just like the state they resided in, was made up of various distinctive traits, that took on specific roles to maintain. But Plato also disputed that there was little to no evidence of such a notion in an everyday sense of the meaning. As a human race, we constantly face choices of what to do, and in most cases, find ourselves at a crossroads to make certain decisions all at once. The only way we can distinguish these directions, is to categorize all the elements within ourselves. (Republic 436b) #didn’t know how to reference this