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Which of the following best reflects the metaphysical position underlying Plato's beliefs about education?
 
  a. Like the Sophists, Plato believed that the purpose of education was to give students the knowledge and skills to become successful leaders of society.
  b. The purpose of education was to help students begin to discover the truths that were innately present within each person and, in the process, to find those persons who were most intellectually capable of leading society.
  c. Platonic schools stressed the ability to work within a vocation that most effectively met the needs of Greek society.
  d. Because there was no such thing as ultimate truth, the purpose of education was to develop truths that would be most useful in the effective functioning of Greek society.

Question 2

In Plato's Republic, he
 
  a. described a perfect state ruled by the intellectual elite.
  b. endorsed the use of sensory approaches to instruction.
  c. examined the curriculum in Greek schools.
  d. proposed a system of schooling using rhetoric.



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Juro

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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: a




captainjonesify

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Reply 2 on: Jul 31, 2018
:D TYSM


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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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