Paper 1 · Teaching Aptitude
Who among the following thinkers propagated the idea of education of the most talented?
AImmanuel Kant
BJean-Paul Sartre
CAristotle
DPlato ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Plato — The idea of educating the most talented is associated with Plato, so the answer is Plato.
Explanation
★The idea of educating the most talented is associated with Plato, so the answer is Plato.
★Plato's scheme selected and educated the ablest to become the guardians and rulers of the ideal state, making talent the basis of higher education.
★In the book Plato is placed among the idealists, who hold that mind and eternal values are more real than the world of the senses.
★Kant is also listed with the idealists but is known for his philosophy of duty and reason rather than the education of the talented.
★Sartre is an existentialist who stresses individual freedom and self-creation, not the selection of the gifted.
★Aristotle is remembered for defining education as the creation of a sound mind in a sound body, a different emphasis from Plato's talent-based scheme.
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