What is platos view of education

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Book: Republic by Plato.

Book V: Focus on the central claim about the ideal ruler(s) for the kallipolis. Why would Plato make this (to our ears, ridiculous or laughable) claim? Is it plausible today? See, e.g. 473c-e, 474c-480a, 476-d, etc.

What is the difference between knowledge & opinion? (476d-480). Does this seem accurate or plausible to you?

Book. VI: Why does Plato say only philosophers have knowledge? Consider passages such as 485a-487a, 500e-501a, etc. What echoes of this idea of a select group in receipt of rarefied knowledge do we see today? How does this relate to our idea of authority or power, and who is qualified to wield or exercise it?

Note that Socrates cannot describe the Good himself, but describes "what is apparently an offspring of the good and most like it" (506b-e). Which brings us to the famous Sun analogy (507a-509c), completed by the line analogy (509d-511e). Why can't Socrates describe the Good?

Book. VII: What is the purpose of the allegory of the cave (514-517b)?

What is Plato's view of education (518b-519b)? Do you find this view plausible, given what we now understand about neuroscience, psychology, etc.?

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