Education is important, very few people would dispute that. It plays a fundamental role in the structure of our society, and America seems to believe that it has one of the best-structured education systems to exist. However, if Plato were observing it he would most likely have harsh criticisms about the educational system’s structure and the styles of teaching used to educate. This seems odd, since Plato himself was like an educator. His works like Meno and The Republic help us understand what, for Plato, an ideal education consisted of; while this cannot simplistically be broken down into a list of things he would find necessary to education, his ideals can be described by contrasting them against America’s education system, specifically,
