A famous teacher in the ancient world

He is the ancestor of teachers in China. It is estimated that everyone knows him and knows more about his deeds. He founded the first school in ancient times with about 3000 students. In addition to imparting theoretical knowledge, Confucius also paid attention to practical operation. He took his disciples to various countries to increase their knowledge and spread his thoughts everywhere.

2. Laozi

He was a great thinker and philosopher in ancient China, the founder and main representative of Taoist school, and was called "one hundred historical celebrities in the world". His simple dialectical thought is highly respected and advocates inaction. Laozi's masterpiece is the Tao Te Ching, which I believe everyone is familiar with. Confucius was also taught by him, and he himself was honored as the "ancestor of Taoism".

3.socrates

A famous thinker, philosopher, educator and citizen juror in ancient Greece.

Socrates and his student Plato, as well as Plato's student Aristotle, are known as the "three sages of ancient Greece" and are generally regarded as the founders of western philosophy by later generations.

As a citizen of Athens, it is recorded that Socrates was finally sentenced to death by the Athens court on charges of insulting the Athenian god, introducing neo-theism and corrupting the thoughts of the Athenian youth. Although Socrates had a chance to escape, he still chose to drink poisonous violet juice and die, because he thought that escape would only further weaken the authority of Athenian law.

4. Plato

The great philosopher of ancient Greece is also one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of the whole western philosophy and even the whole western culture.

He, his teacher Socrates and his student Aristotle are also called the three sages of Greece. Other concepts of its emergence or development include Plato's thought, Platonism, Platonic love and so on. Plato's main work is Dialogues, in which Socrates appears in most dialogues. However, it is generally believed in academic circles that the image of Socrates is not entirely Socrates in history.

In addition to Homer, Plato was also influenced by many writers and thinkers before this, including the concept of "harmony" put forward by Pythagoras, and Anaxagoras's teaching that Socrates should take mind or reason as the basis for judging anything; Parmenides's theory of connecting everything may also have influenced Plato's concept of soul.

5. quintilian

He was a famous educator in ancient Rome. He is a pioneer in greatly developing and perfecting educational methods and ideas in the history of education. He advocates that the education of children should be encouraging and can stimulate their interest.

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