-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... He expresses in Republic that the whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, & to do so by directing it to the right objects. ... However education in the Republic is exclusively meant for those who are to become the rulers of the ideal state. ...

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