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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Source: In Speakers Sourcebook I, by Eleanor Doan, 1960.
-- Plato, (May 21 427BC-347BC), Greek philosopher, author; He was the world's most influential philosopher who wrote in dialectic dialogue form and was a student of Socrates.

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