... of education is to turn the eye which the soul already possesses to the light. The whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, but to bring out the best things that are latent in the soul, and to do so by directing it to the right objects. The problem of education, then, is to give it the right surrounding." -(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human ... life was so important to Plato as education. He himself calls it as "the one great thing". Birth ... as a criterion for distributing function has been rejected by Plato. In its place he had substituted...

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