Give at least three (3) philosophies/philosophers and relate it to education.

1.Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, making contributions to logic, metaphysics,
mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre. He was
a student of Plato who in turn studied under Socrates. He was more empirically-minded than Plato or
Socrate educational s and is famous for rejecting Plato's theoryof forms.

-- Aristotle and education. We only have scraps of his work, but his influence on thinking has
been of fundamental importance. ... First, his work is a testament to the belief that our thinking
and practice as educators must be infused with a clear philosophy of life.

2.Socrates embarked on a whole new perspective of achieving practical results through the application
of philosophy in our daily lives, something that was largely missing in the approach of pre-Socratic
philosophy. He openly moved away from the relentless physical speculations that previous philosophers
had been so busy interpreting and assimilating and attempted to establish an ethical system based on
human reasoning rather than various (and often widely debated) theological doctrines.

--Socrates believed that knowledge was the ultimate virtue, best used to help people improve
their lives. “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance,” he said. ... Socrates'
greatest contribution to fellow learners is his theory of questioning, now called
the Socratic Method.

3. Plato was a student of Socrates and was visibly influenced by the philosophical approach of his
master. But while Socrates was relentlessly occupied with interpreting philosophy based on human
reasoning, Plato combined the two major approaches of pre-Socratic metaphysics and natural theology
with Socratic ethical theology.The foundation of Plato’s philosophy is threefold: dialects, ethics, and
physics, the central point of unison being the theory of forms. For him, the highest of forms was that of
the “good,” which he took as the cause of being and knowledge. In physics, he agreed with many
Pythagorean views. Most of his works, especially his most famous work The Republic, combine various
aspects of ethics, political philosophy, and metaphysics among others, into a systematic, meaningful,
and applicable philosophy.

-- Plato regards education as a means to achieve justice, both individual justice and social justice.
According to Plato, individual justice can be obtained when each individual develops his or her ability to
the fullest. In this sense, justice means excellence. For the Greeks and Plato, excellence is virtue.

Submitted by:
Fretzie C. Villasan