Basic concepts and curricular theory
Talking about education also talks about pedagogy
Studying mathematics and philosophy, his intellect had reached the nature of absolute reality, including superior knowledge of the "form of good".
Plato wondered about the characteristics that a just society should possess, which, in turn, led him to describe his utopia
Education aims to incorporate subjects into a specific society that has its own cultural patterns and characteristics
In the society he envisioned, there were guardians who ruled it, and the main ones were the philosopher-rulers
The end of pedagogy is the integral formation of the human being (know, be and do) who is developed as a rational, autonomous and supportive being.
He offers one of the most complete and profound philosophical systems of ancient thought. His reflection dealt with all the main areas of philosophy
He believed that pedagogy seeks to transform the spontaneous process of education into systematic knowledge.
The first is the time when the student must show passive submission and obedience in this first one a mechanical force governs an rests on exercise and discipline.
In that sense he talks about Education Science which, in his opinion, is physical education or practical education.
Aristotle's philosophy (and its Christian expression in the philosophy of St. Thomas) will dominate Western thought, both philosophical and scientific, until the emergence of new systems in the Renaissance
Without these new philosophies, however they suppose the complete disappearance of the idea of the world and of the basic concepts proposed 2,000 years before by Aristotle.
