This paper analyzes the conflict and fusion of educational views in The Republic by using the hermeneutic method and starting from the"quarrel between philosophy and poetry".It is found that:behind the quarrel between philosophy and poetry in The Republic is the dispute over the dominant power of education and the orthodox view of justice,but in essence it is the dispute between human desire and rationality.This kind of dispute between reason and desire has always been the main line of western educational tradition,but Plato’s educational plan...