In book 3, Socrates begins a very interesting perspective on the importance of education. Many times throughout history Socrates suggests that education can be casual or done with a purpose. In fact, it is stated that education can be the key to the problems that afflict society. However, education goes beyond the idea of ​​what schools and high-level education can teach. One of the best ways education can be used is by guardians, to bend natural tendencies to take complete control over citizens. Education can be used to better shape the characters of not only guardians, managers, or others in the community. «The Idea of ​​the Good – in the light of which the good of the soul is discerned and through which all things become useful and beneficial – is therefore not only the "greatest study", but also the most indispensable to the well-being of the being human. Furthermore, it is the study to which philosophers are inevitably drawn by their love of the spectacle of truth, since the Ideas themselves cannot be adequately known without knowledge of the Good" (Howland). Education, as discussed by Jacob Howland, relates directly to the good of people and the formation of people's characters. Socrates discusses this further in Book 4, “The desires of the worthless many are controlled by the desires and knowledge of the good few” (p. 98). Again, this quote refers to the idea that education leads to decency in people and better