The Educational Idea Of Plato

In the plentiful and substantial writing production of Plato, the literatures which mostly reflect his educational ideas are《the ideal country》and《law》.In these psapers, Plato illuminates that education must cultivates these person who protect their countries--philosopher and soldier. The educational ideas that he illuminated based on the human nature which he thought deeply, based on the understanding of the human psychology, based on the analysis of the human personality. The content of this educational idea system come out by his theoretic understanding of concrete ultimacy, come out by his theoretic understanding of learning's phases. This ladder configuration of understanding make person from the imaging world move up to the Highest Value (the Goodness) to be true. The purposes of education that he prescribe are diplex: blending the nationalism and individualism, causing up growth of the personal body and progress of moral and intellect, bringing up the personal attainment, body and mind's ability, attitude and temperament, dominator and assistant of skill and knowledge, which needed by carring out the citizen's responsibility.There are six parts in this article. In the first part, it mainly discusses the content of Plato's educational ideas, and also the modern reasons of the discussion. In the second part, it briefly discusses the educational ideas before that of Plato. And the third part concerns the inevitable relationship between education and the ideal construction of nation. In the forth part, through the definition of educational concepts and essence, it emphasizes the highest value which uses dialectics as medium to the change of soul, and we also call it the idea of Good. In the fifth part, through the discussions of educational management and content, it demonstrates the systematic, the integrality, and the feasibility of educational plans. And at last, the sixth part discusses the features of Plato's educational idea, then concludes the whole article and assesses the modern significance of Plato's educational idea.