EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Plato believed that talent and intelligence are not distributed genetically and thus is be found in children born to all classes, although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plato’s own solution was that knowledge is formed in a special way distinguishing it from belief: knowledge, unlike belief, must be ‘tied down’ to the truth, like the mythical tethered statues of Daedalus. As a result, knowledge is better suited to guide action.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is Plato Theory of Knowledge? Plato believed that truth is objective and that it results from beliefs which have been rightly justified by and anchored in reason. Thus, knowledge is justified and true belief.

Detailed explanation-4: -Knowledge is a way of getting things right for the right reasons or by the right methods. But true belief can come about by any method, reliable or unreliable. So that’s one way of distinguishing between knowledge or true belief. How does Socrates distinguish them?

Detailed explanation-5: -The theory of Forms or theory of Ideas is a philosophical theory, concept, or world-view, attributed to Plato, that the physical world is not as real or true as timeless, absolute, unchangeable ideas.