Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals

Davidson, Thomas · 1900

In undertaking to treat of Aristotle as the expounder of ancient educational ideas, I might, with Kapp's _Aristoteles' Staatspaedagogik_ before me, have made my task an easy one. I might simply have presented in an orderly way and with a little commentary, what is to be found on the subject of education in his various works--Politics, Ethics, Rhetoric, Poetics, etc. I had two reasons, however, for not adopting this course: (1) that this work had been done, better than I could do it, in the treatise referred to, and (2) that a mere restatement of what Aristotle says on education would hardly have shown his relation to ancient pedagogy as a whole. I therefore judged it better, by tracing brief…

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