Aristotle: roles of education

What is education? What role does it play in society? Is it simply a bunch of mental exercises that the society forces their young to go through in order to promote the intellectually superior and weed out the intellectually inferior. Or is it just task-specific training which will teach individuals how to make money via programming a computer or learning book-keeping skills. Definitely not, according to Aristotle. Aristotle believes that education is the foundation upon …

…e of following laws; even today most of the people who are sent to jail very low education. Aristotle views education as encompassing and irreplaceable. He advances the idea that education is an integral part of a polis and plays a crucial role in moral and intellectual development of a society. He further asserts that a solid educational background allows people to gain ethical character making them eligible to hold important jobs within the polis.