In book 3, Socrates begins a very interesting perspective on the importance of education. Repeatedly throughout the story, Socrates suggests that education can either be haphazard or conducted for a specific purpose. In fact, it is mentioned that education can be the key to the problems plaguing society. However, education goes beyond the idea of ​​what schools and higher education can teach. One of the best ways to use education is for Guardians to curb the natural tendencies to take complete control of citizens. Education can be used to better shape the character of not only guardians, leaders, or other community members. “The Idea of ​​the Good – in the light of which the good of the soul can be discerned and by which all things become useful and beneficial – is therefore not only the “greatest study”, but also the most indispensable to well-being. be human beings. Moreover, it is the study to which philosophers are inevitably drawn by their love of the spectacle of truth, since the Ideas themselves cannot be sufficiently known without the knowledge of the Good” (Howland). Education, as Jacob Howland explains, is directly linked to the good of people and the formation of their character. Socrates also discusses this in more detail in Book 4, ““The desires of the worthless many are controlled by the desires and knowledge of the honest few” (p. 98). Once again, this quote refers to the idea that education leads to decency in people and better