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1. What is education Educare /Educere, (Latin), means: to bring forth, breed, nurture, lead forth, train, instruct, lead out of . Education is teaching and learning, giving and leading to discover intellectual, moral, social values. Education is to instruct, train in knowledge and skills, morals, values and attitudes with a view of living a good/better life Socrates(470-399BC)- For this ancient thinker, education is like midwifery; a teacher is like a midwife. She/he does not deliver the baby but assists in delivering the baby. She/he is not the mother. The mother must desire to have a baby, do all that it takes to have a baby, and go through the labor pains herself. The midwife only assists and gives advice here and there. She/he may not even know why the mother is having the baby. It is not the midwife’s job to know those details. But the mother knows why. A teacher is not a potter or sculptor who, from clay, wood, stone or metal, gets whatever he/she wants to get as a result of his/her work. Clay , wood, stone and metal or any other material, are totally passive. But the student is not “tabula rasa” Education is a summation of ones life experience that ought to help one live is society comfortably and usefully. Plato,(428-347BC) He was a student of Socrates. For Plato, education is what polishes one to gradually graduate from an idiot to a tribesman and eventually to a citizen. only citizens, people with a good education,( good character and care for the common good) should vote.He uses the Allegory of the Cave to explain the difference between an educated person and one who has no education. Find out about Socrates and Plato's philosophy of education. Check out "The allegory of the cave"