The Objectives of Education from Plato's Point of View and its Critique from Dewey's Vision

Abstract

An obvious objective of an idealist education is to encourage students to seek the truth. According to Plato, humans should essentially commit themselves to investigate the truth, and he suggests some objectives to achieve it. Plato's thoughts are important as the beginning of the idealist thoughts and the first philosopher who has studied education. He declares that the objective of education is a fight against the ugliness, affectations and fabrications. It is essential at first to train people for the realization of good governance so that the most intelligent people take the reins of power. But from Dewey's opinion education means reconsidering the experiences and reforming them so that they can provide more growth, he believes that the objective of education is a democratic society and its effectiveness depends on the quality of education; certainly he believes that democracy is not only a political approach to govern the country affairs but a way of life. And, he never believes in a stable and non-transformable community as an appropriate bed to realize the correct education.