Idealisms of the times

Idealisms of the time

During the times of Socrates and Plato, people were not knowledgeable enough to form their own ideas much less were they able to question the ideas that were place in their heads by the much more powerful members of society. Then came an old man by the name of Socrates and he was the first to start to open the minds of the youths of Greece, Socrates has a student by the name of Plato, Plato was the person who wrote about the ideas of Socrates and after the death of Socrates Plato continued and added his own ideas to his teacher’s ideas. He had some idealisms of his own and these are some of his most important ideas; such idea is one that I totally agree with this idea is that reality is based on undeniable truth, which means that truth can be challenged but at the end you will arrive to that same conclusion, another of his ideas is that human beings are born ignorant and we will spend the rest of our lives trying to obtain the knowledge we lost coming out of the womb, he believed that when were in the womb god provided us with all the knowledge of the world and as we were being born we lost all of that we once knew, he also believed that knowledge was not made but discovered, which means that knowledge was not put on this earth but people had to go out of this world and find it, through human curiosity to know how things of this world works we accidently discover knowledge, even in modern times most of the world’s most beneficial inventions were discovered by accident, case in point the invention of controlling electricity by Thomas Jefferson, he was flying a kite in the middle of the storm and all of the sudden here we are today, none of us can imagine this world without our electricity.

This impacted modern education tremendously by allowing our students to explore different parts of education and the sky is the limit is what comes to mind when I read the idealism of Plato, because it teaches us to not make the ideas of our children but rather allow them to explore the world because there are so much knowledge in the world we can’t suppressed their minds to only certain levels of knowledge. New discoveries and ideas and inventions are still being discovered every day, if these creative minds were not set free to gain and understand what they have gained, we would still be in the dark ages.