Platos Perfect World in The Republic - Book Report/Review Example

In order to ensure that the rulers work to keep their state in its most perfect state, Plato proposes a very rigidly organized society that he calls Utopia. He suggested the society was possible by strictly controlling education and entertainment in the society to only those things that were supportive of the beliefs of the state. To ensure that all children received the same education and cultural values growing up, he proposed separating infants from their parents at a very young age and educating them in commune-type schools where all boys and girls would be introduced to the same material.

Students who excelled would be promoted to the next level while those who had difficulty keeping up would be turned out to trade schools where they would be taught how to be general workers within the community. After another course of advanced math, logic and strategy accepted students would be required to complete service in the military before they were given their final education in more abstract reasoning. Only then, when they were approaching 50 years old, were they eligible to take up positions within the ruling class of the community, fully dedicated to the ideals and processes of the system that created them.