What was the importance of Socrates in education?

Socrates was in his time a teaching innovative, critical and a humble teacher, that drove his disciples there were who were willing to talk with him in gardens, streets or squares, and to think, and this earned him a condemnetion to death, which he waited with great serenity. read more

Also Socrates didn't pretend to be in possesion of wisdom as the Sophists did, but that we should all be in a constant search. The most important thing for him, was adquiring personal knowledge of your own inner world, then the knowledge of the outer universe would come. read more

Socrates never resolves the tension between the importance of nature and education for the development of philosopher-kings, which makes it difficult to understand which is most important. He says that philosopher-kings must have a certain nature, but then says the capacity to see the good and be educated is in all. read more

Socrates always emphasized the importance of the mind over the relative unimportance of the human body. This credo inspired Plato’s philosophy of dividing reality into two separate realms, the world of the senses and the world of ideas, declaring that the latter was the only important one. read more