A Study on the Educational Process and Humanistic Leadership in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia

The aim of this study is to introduce three educational processes of Great King Cyrus of ancient Persia in the work Cyropaedia written by Xenophon known as philosopher and general in ancient Greece and to investigate some meaningful leaderships described in the work Cyropaedia of Xenophon. Conclusions are as followings: Firstly, it was found that the three types of education such as basic school education, median special education, and parent’s informal education influenced considerably to formation of humanistic leadership or character. Secondly, it was learned that important humanistic leaderships such as companion, modeling, tolerance, caring, persuasion, self-control, and impartiality came into victory of conquest war and furthermore influenced to establishment and management of great empire. We may think those leaderships are traditional and outdated and should be discarded, but those leaderships will be recognized as important capacity or competence with universal value. In this sense, humanistic leaderships in Cyropaedia will be reinterpreted newly even today.