Symposium And The End Of Education Analysis

In Book One of The Laws of Plato, the Athenian stranger argues that symposia, when properly conducted, is a great boon for education. We learn that symposium’s most basic characterization and understanding is a conference or meeting to discuss a certain concern or subject. Through reading, The Laws of Plato we discover that education is extremely important and it allows the individual to be good and noble which in return presents the educated means and a worthy life in society. How does the stranger propose to put symposium in use and what is the end of education.

Symposium is an Athenian exercise that permits citizens to come together and convene and figure out and solve public and private issues. The symposium is a form of speech that

During this era both private and public education is available to young male adults however it is not the same definition we have of our modern understanding of private versus public education we know of. In our modern present society private education and public education are nearly identical, but they teach different morals and either the government for public education or runs them by a private board or charter for the private schooling. However in the Athenian Stranger’s time private and public education deal two very distinctive courses in society. Private education is a far superior form of learning in some etiquette, while public education is still very important, but it is more common and cost nothing to receive. Private education takes one person who is educated by a chartered instructor who grooms them to educate them as a human being, but not how to be an ideal citizen and it involves the removal of soul. Those who receive a private education are more than expected apart of a wealthy and noble household. Voluminous students of this private education go into politics and other expanses of government. Public education on the other spectrum, focus with other peers on how to become a respectable and morale citizen who obeys the law and contributes to the every day betterment and function of their society. Public education works through instilling shame within the soul. The Athenian stranger says, “Those who are correctly educated usually become good, and nowhere should education be dishonored, as it is the first among the noblest things for the best men.” (644a-644b). Unfortunately there is a lasting conflict between the two forms of education, but the goal is to have a hybrid between the two. The stranger has a very simple but important method to put this education in