Key Ideas
Qualities that make society healthy and successful
Plato believed that education should prioritize Truth and Reality over Appearances.
Socrates knew that he knew nothing.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
What did the proponents react to?
Poetry swept people up in their emotions, leads to loss of reason.
Poets taught students to lear by memorising, rather than reasoning.
What did the proponents propose?
Society should strive for the universal ideas of Truth, the Real and the Good
People should think critically, and be able to support their ideas logically.
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