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in explaining to us what we
ask or, your views as to how this communion of wives and children among our
guardians will be managed, and also about the rearing of the children while
still young in the interval between1 birth and formal schooling which is
thought to be the most difficult part of education. Try, then, to tell us
what must be the manner of it.” “It is not an easy thing
to expound, my dear fellow,” said I, “for even more than
the provisions that precede it, it raises many doubts. For one might doubt
whether what is proposed is possible2 and, even conceding the
possibility,3 one might still be
sceptical whether it is best.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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