The government of the state is handed on by the older men to the youth of the coming generation, and that since the succession goes on without end, it follows of necessity that as is the education of our youth so from generation to generation will be the fortune of the state. Therefore, you must not let the sycophants have control of a thing so momentous. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 174.
Image: Silenus cradling the baby Dionysus, Roman copy of a Greek original, from the British Museum displayed as part of The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece exhibit.
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