# Plato & Aristotle:  Views on Education (Paiedea) and Mimesis

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**Created:** [December 17, 2002, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plato-aristotle-views-on-education-paiedea-and-mimesis/143356 "2002-12-17T17:19:12Z")\
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I have been working on the relationship of pedagogy and the mimetic arts in Plato’s Dialogues. Particularly, the concern by Plato/Socrates for an education directed at the ethical-political, which leads to his famous banning of the poets. I am wondering whether I might be able to connect this to similar (or opposing) views from Aristotle in Poetics (or Possibly Ethics), which I haven’t yet taken a look at. Can anyone give me a preview of how Aristotle sees the problem of educating Greece and the imitative arts?