The Laws Of Education Should Be Relative To The Principles Of Government on Superphysics

Ancient vs Modern Education. Education in a Republic

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Chapter 3: Education in a Despotic Government

Education in monarchies tends to raise and ennoble the mind.

In despotic governments, its only aim is to debase it.

Here, it must necessarily be servile.
Even in power, such an education will be an advantage because every tyrant is at the same time a slave.

Excessive obedience supposes ignorance in the person that obeys. The same it supposes in him that Edition= current; Page= [42] commands; for he has no occasion to deliberate, to doubt, to reason; he has only to will.

The Laws of Education

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Chapter 1: Education in Monarchy and Despotism

The laws of education are the first impressions we receive.

They prepare us for civil life, every private family ought to be governed by the plan of that great household which comprehends them all.the people in general have a principle, their constituent parts, that is, the several families, will have one also.

Greek Institutions and Manners

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Chapter 6: Some Institutions among the Greeks

THE ancient Greeks were convinced that people who live under a popular government should be trained up to virtue.

And so they made very singular institutions in order to inspire it.

A Paradox of the Ancients, in Respect to Manners

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Polybius was a judicious writer. He informs us that music was necessary to soften the manners of the Arcadians who lived in a cold gloomy country.

The inhabitants of Cynete slighted music and were the cruellest of all the Greeks. No other town was so immersed in luxury and debauch.