Early society, 2. 359.
Eating, pleasure accompanying, 8. 559.
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.
Education. [ Education in the Republic is divided into two parts, (i) the common education of the citizens; (ii) the special education of the rulers. (i) The first, beginning with childhood in the plays of the children [ cp. Laws 1. 643 B], is the old Hellenic education, [ the καταβεβλημένα παιδεύματα of Aristotle , Pol. viii. 2, § 6], — ‘music for the mind and gymnastic for the body’ [ cp. Laws 7. 795 E]. But Plato soon discovers that both are really intended for the benefit of the soul [ cp. Laws 5. 743 D]; and under ‘music’