The Pedagogy In Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince

Aristotle once said, "The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet." Now it is thought that education should be made easy and comfortable, but that 's not how Aristotle seems to understand the concept, and it is a fair assumption that Socrates didn 't feel this way either. In his allegory of the cave when the prisoner is dragged out by his hair, is he greeted by a nice comfortable learning experience? No, he is blinded by the light and has to wait for his eyes to adjust, because Socrates didn 't think learning was something that happened without some fear and discomfort. In The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli, as he is humbling himself and his work in the forward explaining how The Prince might not be as befitting to Lorenzo the Magnificent as the gifts of grandeur presented to him on a regular basis, implies the great value he has placed on the knowledge he is about to share through the statement, "In my desire to offer to Your Highness some humble testimony of my devotion, I have been unable to find among my possessions anything which I hold so dear or esteem so highly as that knowledge of the …show more content…
A real world example such as my own education starting at birth, or even pre-birth, and ending in the present. Now according to Plato, what the state defines as your education is merely a sliver of what your education truly is. One 's education is composed of every single thing or idea that one has come into contact with and even the ideas that one was not able to come into contact with due either to random chance or the intentional exclusion of said ideas from one 's education; a concept integral to Plato 's