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Single Idea 532

[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education ]

Full Idea

Education does not take root in the soul unless one goes deep.

Gist of Idea

Successful education must go deep into the soul

Source

Protagoras (fragments/reports [c.441 BCE], B11), quoted by Plutarch - On Practice 178.25

Book Ref

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.127