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Full Idea
We should use children's games to channel their pleasures and desires towards activities in which they will have to engage when they are adult.
Gist of Idea
Children's games should channel their pleasures into adult activity
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.349 BCE], 643c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.72