1. Plato believes that God created man, which can be divided into three types: gold, silver and iron. Jin people are good at thinking and full of reason, and are rulers; Silver-haired people make good use of their bodies, are brave and active, and are soldiers; Iron man is a man with legs, a man full of feelings and desires, and a laborer. The genetic qualities of these three kinds of people are immutable. So Plato is the representative of genetic determinism.
2. The purpose of education Plato proposed in the Republic that the highest goal of education is to train philosophers and politicians, that is, the king of philosophy. Plato believes that the purpose of education is to train the noble children of slave owners into philosophers and soldiers who rule the country. Moreover, Plato believes that education should be handled by the state, and the content of education should also be stipulated according to the interests of the state. Obviously, Plato is a representative figure of social standard theory.
3. Learning is memory. Plato put forward "theory of ideas" and "theory of memory", holding that all knowledge and truth exist in the world of thinking and learning.
Knowledge is the process of recalling the ideological world.
4. In the history of western education, Plato was the first person to put forward the theory of systematic education. He advocated early education and thought that education
The earlier you start, the better. Plato, as the earliest educator who put forward the idea of public preschool education, was also the first person who advocated "game learning". He demanded that children should not be forced to study, and advocated that the nature of each child in the game should be better understood by playing games.