A sound nurture and education, if kept up, creates good natures in the state

A sound nurture and education, if kept up, creates good natures in the state. Plato. The Republic. Book 4. Section 424a.

Image: Relief found in Neumagen near Trier, a teacher with three discipuli Roman around 180–185 CE. (Casting in the Pushkin Museum) Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Shakko.