“Now, all this study of reckoning and geometry and all the preliminary studies that are indispensable preparation for dialectics must be presented to them while still young, not in the form of compulsory instruction.2” “Why so?” “Because,” said I,
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that growing old a man is able to learn
many things. He is less able to do that than to run a race. To the young1 belong all heavy and frequent labors.”
“Necessarily,” he said.
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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