ABSTRACT
Aristotle, one of the greatest and most influential educational philosophers of all time, was born in 384 BCE in the Northern Greek town of Stagira. Aristotle was certainly strongly influenced by Plato's teachings but later came to reject some of the most important of them. He is reported to have said: 'Plato is dear to one but dearer still is truth.' Aristotle's work has had an enormous impact on Western thought, although it was not until the thirteenth century that the main body of his writing was rediscovered in Western Europe. Aristotle also saw the world as a dynamic place where everything is continually evolving according to some inner purpose. The main source of Aristotle's ideas is his Politics and like Plato he was influenced by his own aristocratic background and accepted that some people are slaves or manual labourers by nature while others are naturally endowed to be soldiers or rulers.
