Greek Thinkers

He taught by asking questions, and was sentenced to death for his style of teaching.

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

Opened a school called The Academy, the most important school in Greece.

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

He tutored the young Alexander the Great, who would one day rule over Greece, Persia and Egypt.

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Socrates

He imagined a society where people were divided into different groups, each contributing what it could.

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Socrates

At his school, they wrote down all of their findings, creating one of the first great libraries of the world.

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

He fought for Athens in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta, where he was in three battles and saved the life of a general.

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Plato

He believed that uneducated people should not get to make important decisions for everyone.

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

Plato was his teacher at The Academy.

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Plato

He always taught that the mind was more important than the body.

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

He started his own school, the Lyceum.

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle