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It is impossible to overstate Aristotle’s importance in the development of Western thought. A student of Plato, Aristotle quickly distinguished himself from his teacher by rejecting the theory of forms—the belief that the characteristics of any physical thing (roundness, redness) exist apart from it in an abstract realm of forms. Aristotle taught that forms could not be properly understood apart...
BOOK VIII (V) cc. 1–7. The Ideal Education continued. Its Music and Gymnastic. 1. Education should be under state-control and the same for all the citizens. 2. It should comprise those useful studies which every one must master, but none which degrade the mind or body. 3. Reading, writing, and drawing have always been taught on the score of their utility; gymnastic as producing valour. Music is taught as a recreation, but it serves a higher purpose. The noble employment of leisure is the highest
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