Education

What is education? What role does it play in society? Is it simply a bunch of mental exercises that the society forces their young to go through in order to promote the intellectually superior and weed out the intellectually inferior. Or is it just task-specific training which will teach individuals how to make money via programming a computer or learning book-keeping skills. Definitely not, according to Aristotle. Aristotle believes that education is the foundation upon which the society is built and has value for it’s own sake.
Education has long been viewed as means of advancing one’s individual status in society. Aristotle has a set of specific views defining and explaining the benefits that one can derive from education. According to Aristotle morality and education go hand in hand. One, in effect, learns to become moral through furthering one’s educational level.
Aristotle’s understanding of law and education stems from his concept of polis as independent...