Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals

Let me now give an account of the Old Education, when I, uttering words of justice, was in my prime, and self-control was held in respect. In the first place, a child was not al...

Thou needs must have knowledge of all things, First of the steadfast core of the Truth that forceth conviction, Then of the notions of mortals, where true conviction abides not....

Truly it was an old world, and even Cæsar's patriotic genius was not enough to make it young again. The dawn does not return till the night has fully set in.--Mommsen.

All the Ephesians, from youth up, ought to be hanged and the State left to the boys, because they cast out Hermodorus, the worthiest man amongst them, saying: 'No one of us shal...

ANTIGONE. ... But him will I inter; And sweet 'twill be to die in such a deed, And sweet will be my rest with him, the sweet, When I have righteously offended here. For longer t...

The forces of the human passions in us, when completely repressed, become more vehement; but when they are called into action for short time and in the right degree, they enjoy...

We found ourselves beneath a noble castle Encompassed seven times with lofty walls, Defended round by a fair rivulet. O'er this we passed as upon solid earth: Through seven gate...

Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both have for their subjects those things which, in a certain way, are matters of common knowledge, and belong to no definite science....

The Lacedæmonians impart to their children the look of wild beasts, through the severity of the exercises to which they subject them, their notion being that such training is es...

The peculiar character of each form of government is what establishes it at the beginning and what usually preserves it.... Since the whole State has but one end, it is plainly...

Most glorious of all the Undying, many-named, girt round with awe! Jove, author of Nature, applying to all things the rudder of law-- Hail! Hail! for it justly rejoices the race...

If, now in my quiet days, I had youthful faculties at my command, I should devote myself to Greek, in spite of all the difficulties I know. Nature and Aristotle should be my sol...

The principles of all virtue are three, knowledge, power, and choice. Knowledge is like sight, whereby we contemplate and judge things; power is like bodily strength, whereby we...

The material body, which is subject to motion, change, dissolution, and division, requires an immaterial principle to hold and bind it together in unity. This principle of unity...

First, then, let us try to enumerate whatever worthy utterances have proceeded from men of the past upon any aspect of the subject, and then, referring to our collections of _Co...

There are three Essences. Two of these are sensible; one being eternal, and the other perishable. The latter is admitted by all, in the form, for example, of plants and animals;...

When we consider the different arts that have been discovered, and distinguish between those which relate to the necessary conditions of life and those which contribute to the f...

Le cœur d'un homme vierge est un vase profond-- Lorsque la première eau qu'on y verse est impure, La mer y passerait sans laver la souillure; Car l'abîme est immense, et la tach...

When they (our ancestors) began to enjoy leisure for thought, as the result of easy circumstances, and to cherish more exalted ideas with respect to worth, and especially when,...

Be assured that happiness has its source, not in extensive possessions, but in a right disposition of the soul. Even in the case of the body, no one would call it fortunate for...

Some hold that men become good by nature, others by training, others by instruction. The part that is due to nature obviously does not depend upon us, but is imparted through ce...

Nature endeavors to make the bodies of freemen and slaves different; the latter strong for necessary use, the former erect and useless for such operations, but useful for politi...

When thou art dead, thou shalt lie in the earth. Not even the memory of thee shall be Thenceforward nor forever; for thou hast No share in the Pierian roses; but Ev'n in the hal...

With thee the aged car-borne Peleus sent me on the day whereon from Phthia to Agamemnon he sent thee, a mere boy, not yet acquainted with mutual war or councils, in which men ri...

No citizen has a right to consider himself as belonging to himself; but all ought to regard themselves as belonging to the State, inasmuch as each is a part of the State; and ca...

Ionian or Athenian Education 60 (1) Family Education 64 (2) School Education 67 (α) Musical (and Literary) Education 72 (β) Gymnastics, or Bodily Training 77 (γ) Dancing 82 (3)...