A Comparative Review of Plato and Swami Vivekananda’s Thought on Education
Volume-XIII, Issue-III, April 2025
Volume-XIII, Issue-III, April 2025 |
Received: 08.03.2025 | Accepted: 24.04.2025 | Published Online: 30.04.2025 | Page No: 136-147 | ||||
A Comparative Review of Plato and Swami Vivekananda’s Thought on Education Ananya Sarkar, Research Scholar, Department of Political Science, The University of Burdwan, East Burdwan, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
The Greek Philosopher Plato and the Indian philosopher Vivekananda’s diverse thought on education is considered to be very significant. Due to the differences in the social, political, economic and cultural environment of both philosophers in the development of educational thought, the differences in their educational thought can be observed in different aspects. Plato conceived of his ideal state to resolved the conflicts and prevent social decay in the city-states of Greece and developed his philosophy of education as the foundation of this ideal state. During the time of swami Vivekananda, exposure to western education led to the emergence of logical an intellectual consciousness among Indians, but they tend to be forgotten about the glorious past, ancient traditions and culture of their own country. Vivekananda wanted to awaken the self-power and self-consciousness of people by combining the science and technology of the West with Indian education and culture for the overall development of India. Despite the gap between the country and the time of Plato and Vivekananda but their idea up coordination of body-mind-soul was of great importance in the education thought of both philosophers. Besides the purpose of their educational thinking was to eliminate existing problems obstacles in the contemporary social, political and cultural spheres. | ||
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