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Full Idea
The Minister of Education is by far the most important of all the supreme offices of the state; the best all-round citizen in the state should be appointed.
Gist of Idea
Control of education is the key office of state, and should go to the best citizen
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.348 BCE], 765e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.241