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Moreover individual treatment is better than
a common system, in education as in medicine. As a general rule rest and fasting are good
for a fever, but they may not be best for a particular case; and presumably a professor of
boxing does not impose the same style of fighting on all his pupils. It would appear then
that private attention gives more accurate results in particular cases, for the particular
subject is more likely to get the treatment that suits him. But a physician or trainer or
any other director can best treat a particular person if he has a general knowledge of
what is good for everybody, or for other people of the same kind: for the sciences deal
with what is universal, as their names1 imply.
1 e.g., medicine is ‘the science of healing,’ not the ‘science of healing Brown or Jones.’
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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