Greece was the place where flowed sophisticated, even that has not been to Greece, the birthplace of sophistication. The Sophists had great importance in the professionalization of education. Moreover, Greece is considered the cradle of pedagogy.

           Eastern people believed that education was the origin of the divine. The knowledge that circulated in the community summed up their own customs and beliefs. This situation prevented a reflection on education, since this was rigid and static, the result of a theocratic social organization. The deity was therefore highest authority, so their will not be challenged.

          In Classical Greece, by contrast, the autonomous reason overlaps the purely religious and mystical explanations. The critical intelligence, man free to think and form judgments about their reality, not prepared to submit to fate, but to influence and be an agent of transformation as a citizen, that is what it boils down to the Greek conception of the revolutionary education and its purposes.