I believe people should not look at Plato as your typical name found in your history book, because this man started the basis of philosophy that is still used and valued today from this we should all be able to cherish Plato. After reading all this you should now be eager to keep reading furthermore to find out just where does Plato's life lead now? .
Plato was a Greek philosopher who was a student and follower of Socrates, another great philosopher. Socrates was the first of the three great teachers of ancient Greece. The other two were Plato and Aristotle. Plato founded the Academy school in Athens. His Academy, which opened in about 387 BC, helped start the college and university system that we still have today. It was a school dedicated to philosophy, law, and scientific research (primarily mathematics) and it existed until AD 529, when it and other non-Christian schools were closed by the emperor Justinian. During this time it was hard for people like Plato and Socrates to live because of the great amount of prejudice on philosophers and on people who the emperor believes is non-Christian.
Most of Plato's works consisted of "dialogs" between Socrates and other philosophers. Like Socrates, Plato was concerned in moral, not natural philosophy. He believed that government officials should be "philosopher kings" so he developed a course of study mainly about abstract thought for their education that is found in Plato's Republic. The Republic discusses the nature of justice and the institutions of society. But it also deals with the whole range of human knowledge, the purpose and content of education, and the nature of science.
Plato was a believer in the "quadrivium" which is about four math fields of study in the liberal arts, which begins with arithmetic, then to plane geometry, solid geometry, and lastly astronomy and harmonics. Plato believed that knowledge was "forgotten" at birth, and was able to be remembered.
