Plato emphasized that teachers should be hired by the state and what to teach should be examined by the state. He emphasized that the methods of early education should be in line with children's age characteristics, emphasizing natural happiness and attaching importance to the harmonious education of sports, morality and games. Plato's early education is a complete system with content and purpose, which is embodied in the forms of games, listening to stories, music cultivation and gymnastics exercises, with the aim of cultivating children's moral qualities such as integrity, kindness and justice.

Plato attached great importance to early educational games and endowed them with great educational theoretical significance. He realized that games were in line with children's nature and played an important role in children's life. Playgrounds are mainly games, but the contents and methods of games must be carefully selected and not changed easily, so as not to form children's psychology of "liking the new and hating the old". The content and method of the game must conform to the spirit of the law, "because if the game does not conform to the law, the child will also become an illegal child and will not be a law-abiding citizen with good conduct." The legal spirit here means that games should be educational and regular, and positive examples should be set for children to imitate. Plato encouraged children to play games invented by themselves without violating the law, and thought that the games invented by children themselves were the best. In this way, Plato deeply realized children's lively and playful nature, and thought that games were the best educational content for children's independent activities and creative spirit, so that children could gradually acquire character through the inherent legal spirit of games.