In The Republic, Plato believes that the purpose of education is to guide people to pursue and realize the idea of "goodness" and cultivate the rulers' philosophical thoughts of loving learning and wisdom, which is also an important condition for creating an ideal country. Only when the rulers are grateful for "goodness" can they manage the polis with wisdom rather than power.
Its educational contents include preschool education, educational ethics, lifelong education, entertainment education, physical education and national education.
Utopian view of education;
1, early childhood education.
He advocates storytelling and music education for children from an early age, but the lyrics, tunes and story content should be checked. It is also necessary to carry out physical exercise for children and cultivate their qualities of hard work and courage to struggle. He believes that children's early education can form good habits from an early age, which will become their second nature and will not be easily changed.
He also advocated that in early education, "learning should be combined with games" to make learning conform to children's characteristics, but attention should be paid to the choice of game content.
2. Cultivation and education of the king of philosophy.
In his view, the highest educational goal of Utopia is to train philosophers, politicians and philosophy kings. /kloc-children aged 0/0 should learn arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music theory in addition to literacy, reading and moral education. At the age of 20, the young people who are selected should synthesize the courses they have studied to see if they have the talent of dialectics.
At the age of 30, these people will be screened and assessed, and the selected people will learn dialectics for another five years. At the age of 35, I will put it into practical work to exercise. At the age of 50, those who have achieved excellent results in practice and study will be tested after doing it, become the king of philosophy, engage in the management of state affairs and continue to study philosophy.