1. Plato's Ideal State and his Theory of Education
This is the reason of that high place which Plato assigns to art & specially to music as means of education. He found in literature the main instrument of education i.e, studying the standard literature of his country; knowledge of some art, rudiments of the science of numbers & figures. ... The gentler side of life should also be developed & Plato has recommended the study of music for the achievement of that object. ... Music also moulds character, & therefore shares in determining social & political issues. ... Now at the age of 50, those, who have stayed the course of this hard & long pro...
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