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Outline the contribution of Plato (427-327BC) towards the development of philosophy of education.

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-Advocated for extreme methods ie removing children from their mothers’ care and raising them as wards of the state.
-Those from highest caste received more education in order to be guardians of the city
-Advocated for holistic education including facts, skills, physical discipline and rigidity, music and art.
-Believed that talent was found in every child from all classes.
-Insisted that gifted children be trained by the state to assume ruling class in future
-Founded democratic philosophies of education which assumes that only some students should be educated to the fullest while others may fall by the wayside.
-Believed that for a peaceful society, kings were to be philosophers and philosophers to be kings.

sharon kalunda answered the question on March 13, 2019 at 09:33

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