If I were writing from the view of Plato, my views on education would be very succinct. Although what is truly needed is a new form of government in which Philosophers are made to govern, it is not only unfeasible, yet very dangerous for the person trying to form such a government. Therefore if I were to open a school, perhaps the change of government would happen gradually, as young statesmen are educated in a …
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…mind of philosophers. Debate/free discussion is needed so that people learn to be virtuous, and expand their mind to think as others think. New people are needed because my new system would never work with today's existing populace. They would have to be born into my type of society and raised in such a way since childhood. Only through this form of education can humanity learn to live life without violence and utter vice.