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What are the three landmark works in the history of education?
In the history of education, three landmark works are: The Republic, Emile and Democracy and Education.

The Republic is one of the important dialogues written by Plato, a famous ancient Greek philosopher (427- 347 BC). This book is divided into ten volumes, which is not only the longest, but also very rich in content, involving all aspects of his philosophy, especially his political philosophy and epistemology.

Emile is a book written by Jean-Jean-jean-jacques rousseau, a great French enlightenment thinker, philosopher, educator and writer in the 8th century. Rousseau put forward the principles, contents and methods of educating children of different ages according to their age. In the first volume, it focuses on how to carry out physical education for infants before the age of two, so that children can develop naturally. In the second volume, he thinks that children between the ages of two and twelve are still asleep and lack thinking ability, so he advocates sensory education for children in this period. In the third volume, he thinks that teenagers aged 12 to 15 have already had some experience through sensory perception, so he mainly discusses their intellectual education. In the fourth volume, he thinks that1young people between the ages of 5 and 20 begin to enter the society, so he mainly discusses their moral education. In the fifth volume, he thinks that Young Men and Women mainly discusses the education of women and the love education of young men and women because of the needs of natural development.

Democracy and Education is the representative work of Dewey, a famous American educator. It is a masterpiece comparable to Plato's Republic and Rousseau's Emile. This book is comprehensive, coherent, reasonable in structure, scientific, systematic, theoretical and academic, and can be used as a reference for educators.