“…To my knowledge, this interconnection between political regimes and education found in the Platonic account of imperfect regimes has never been noted (or at least examined thoroughly for its significance for contemporary education). Scholars working in ancient philosophy focus on the political and ethical ideas discussed in the Platonic account of imperfect political systems (see, e.g., Scott, 2000;Hitz, 2010;Johnson, 2015), while those educational theorists who study Plato's theory of education have not examined the educational remarks that Plato makes in his discussion of imperfect political systems (Carr, 2010;Smith, 2011Smith, , 2014Smith, , 2018Jonas, 2016aJonas, , 2016bJonas, , 2017Mintz, 2018;Kotsonis, 2019Kotsonis, , 2020Jonas & Nakazawa, 2020;Marshall, 2020).…”