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Would Philip of Macedon have wished that his son
Alexander should be taught the rudiments of letters
by Aristotle, the greatest philosopher of that age, or
would the latter have undertaken the task, if he had
not thought that even the earliest instruction is best
given by the most perfect teacher and has real
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reference to the whole of education?
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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