{"id":36914,"date":"2023-01-22T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/plato-on-education\/"},"modified":"2023-01-22T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T17:15:08","slug":"plato-on-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/plato-on-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Plato on Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Excerpted in The Great Tradition<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For we are not speaking of education in this narrower sense, but of that other education in virtue from youth upwards, which makes a man eagerly pursue the ideal perfection of citizenship, and teaches him how rightly to rule and how to obey. This is the only education which, upon our view, deserves the name; that other sort of training, which aims at the acquisition of wealth or bodily strength, or mere cleverness apart from intelligence and justice, is mean and illiberal, and is not worthy to be called education at all.<\/p>\nPlato, Laws <\/em>(excerpted in The Great Tradition<\/em>, p16)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpted in The Great Tradition: For we are not speaking of education in this narrower sense, but of that other education in virtue from youth upwards, which makes a man eagerly pursue the ideal perfection of citizenship, and teaches him how rightly to rule and how to obey. This is the only education which, upon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3316],"tags":[3340,3341],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36899,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/aporia\/","url_meta":{"origin":36914,"position":0},"title":"Aporia","author":"Jandy","date":"November 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean, I would actually argue that \"Did the student reach a state of aporia\" meets the criteria as both specific and measurable. 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