EDUCATIONAL THEORIES OF PLATO

                EDUCATIONAL THEORIES OF PLATO

(1) EDUCATION FOR ALL

plato wants every boy and girl educated to it limit.

(2) State Education

Education should be provided by the state not by parents.

(3) Organization and Curriculum

Plato curriculum was consist of gymnastic and music, where in gymnastic include physical training and music used in broad term for dram, history, oratory and music in real term, he define different stages for the organization and curriculum;

1. Elementary School

Co-education at elementary level and teach them mathematics, poetry, music and literature till the age of eighteen years.

2. Military Training

After elementary education two years of Physical education should be given to them and select best of them for higher education; to prepare for the future guardians of the state.

3. Higher Education

Higher education should be given from twenty to thirty-five years of age, he well study the subjects at this stage mathematics, literature and philosophy. Later on he would be opponent at a minor administrative position to get experience for the future more important governing positions.

"The object of education is to turn the eye which the soul already possesses to the light. The whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, but to bring out the best things that are latent in the soul, and to do so by directing it to the right objects. The problem of education, then, is to give it the right surrounding." -(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518)

Nothing was more important to Plato in human life as education. He considers education the greatest thing in human life as he mention in his book "the one great thing".

Plato's Theory of education was an indispensable necessity for mankind. It was a positive remedy for the problems and operation of justice in an ideal state.