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428 BCE
Plato: Founder of Platonist School of Thought and the Academy
Plato, the Athenian philosopher, claimed that the early childhood years help form the child's upcoming social, cultural, and intellectual life. He claims that the values needed by good citizens are induced by a child's curriculum that consists of games, stories, music, and drama. Ultimately, he believed that everyone came into the world with all essential knowledge and education helps track it as there is a development of mind and body.
