The Republic · ¶4930

Education, commonly divided into gymnastic for the body and music for the soul, 2. 376 E, 403 (see Gymnastic, Music, and cp. Laws 7. 795 E); both music and gymnastic really designed for the soul, 3. 410: —use of fiction in, 2. 377 foll.; 3. 391; the poets bad educators, 2. 377; 3. 391, 392, 408 B; 10. 600, 606 E, 607 B [cp. Laws 10. 886 C, 890 A]; must be simple, 3. 397, 404 E; melody in, ib. 398 foll.; mimetic art in, ib. 399; importance of good surroundings, ib. 401; influence of, on manners, 4. 424, 425; innovation in, dangerous, ibid.; early, should be given through amusement, ib. 425 A; 7. 536 E [cp. Laws 1. 643 B]; ought to be the same for men and women, 5. 451 foll., 466; dangerous when ill-directed, 6. 491; not a process of acquisition, but the use of powers already existing in us, 7. 518; not to be compulsory, ib. 537 A; —education of the guardians, 2. 376 foll.; 4. 429, 430; 7. 521 (cp. Guardians, Ruler); —the higher or philosophic education, 6. 498, 503 E, 504; 7. 514–537; age at which it should commence, 6. 498; 7. 537; ‘the longer way,’ 6. 504 (cp. 4. 435); ‘the prelude or preamble,’ 7. 532 E.

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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