A Platonic Theory of Moral Education: Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms by Mark E. Jonas and Yoshiaki Nakazawa (Routledge 2020) provides an approach to education that aims to help students navigate today’s increasingly complex moral environment. The approach advocated for in the book comes from an unlikely source: Plato. Although Plato wrote his dialogues over two-thousand years ago, Plato’s writings offer contemporary educators invaluable insights into how to cultivate strong and enduring ethical character in students. Unfortunately, in the last two centuries, these insights have been obscured by persistent misinterpretations of Plato’s political, ethical, and educational theories. He is usually considered to be (1) a totalitarian in his political theory, who thinks that philosophers should rule society with unchecked authority, (2) an intellectualist in his ethical theory, who thinks that cognitive knowledge is all that is necessary for virtue; and (3) an elitist in his educational theory, who thinks that only certain students should be given a robust education. This book demonstrates the inaccuracy of these interpretations and shows that if his political, ethical, and educational theories are properly understood, his philosophy can serve as an excellent foundation for contemporary moral education.