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Single Idea 238

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles]

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.348 BCE], 643c)

Book Reference

Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.72