Education in the utopia is centered on goodness. Guide the turning of the mind and understand "good ideas"; The greatest learning is to learn the idea of goodness; Every soul pursues goodness as the goal of all its actions.

In the Republic, Plato vividly expressed his purpose through metaphor: "This thing that gives truth to the object of knowledge and cognitive ability to the subject of knowledge is the idea of goodness." And education is the only effective means to achieve this ultimate goal. But the function of education is not to "make something out of nothing", but to discover the goodness in the soul, so that people can realize the spiritual turn.

Plato's utopia

Plato is an objective idealist philosopher, and idealism is the core of his philosophical thought, that is, the origin of the universe is not material, but spiritual.

The conceptual world imagined by Plato is a perfect pyramid: the concept of countless concrete things at the bottom is the lowest; A slightly higher level is the concept of mathematics or science; Higher is the idea of morality and art; Living at the top of the tower is the concept of "goodness".

"Good" is the origin of all things. The purpose and task of education is how to guide people to know this "goodness". The content of education is what to achieve this "goodness" to the greatest extent.