anemon‘Human nature’ constituted the focus of Plato and Rousseau’s educational approach. Both of them revealed large-scale and principled methods on education. Even if they put the nature on the basis of educational approach, their approaches were different. According to Plato, human nature was determined by birth. He mentioned that there were gold, silver, iron and bronze-created people. According to Plato, the function of education seemed to reveal which metals were in the creation of children; but if we carefully examine Plato’s educational approach, we can say that human nature is shapeable, and he assumes human nature as can be created by education. In contrast, Rousseau gave equal importance to child’s physiological and psychological ...