SOCRATES’

PHILOSOHY OF EDUCATION
BY : Claudine O. Manabit
Girlie M. Sumega
socrates
OBJECTIVES

• Determine the contribution of Socrates in

the field of the Foundation of Education
• Share one’s view on the
Educational
Theory of Socrates
• Manifest the ability to gauge between moral
and just judgment using Socratic Method
 Who was Socrates?
• Son of a sculptor
• Studied philosophy
• Influenced by early Greek philosophers
• Student of Heraclitus and Parmenides
• Served as a soldier during the Peloponnesian War
• The philosopher eventually carried out his own death
sentence by drinking hemlock, a poison
 SOCRATES and His View on
Education

• Believed that education was required by those in power

• Education, to Socrates, comes about when three
things happen
• Socrates’ ideas about education included the
development mind (soul) and body
• Socrates also believed that education should be
provided to people regardless of gender
Socratic Method

• Those who do not like confrontation are

not likely to approve of the Socratic
method
• His philosophy extended to fashioning the
body and mind to create moral, just
people
• Capture Audience Attention
 The Educational
Theory of Socrates

II. Theory of
I. Theory of Knowledge
Value

III. Theory of IV. Theory of

Human Nature Learning
 The Educational
Theory of Socrates

VII. Theory of
V. Theory of Opportunity
Transmission

VI. Theory VIII. Theory of

of Society Consensus
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