Aristotle And Ancient Educational Ideals

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  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 briefly the whole history of Greek
  education up to Aristotle and down from Aristotle, to show the past which conditioned his
  theories and the future which was conditioned by them. Only thus, it seemed to me, could
  his teachings be seen in their proper light. And I have found that this method has many
  advantages, of which I may mention one. It has enabled me to show the close connection
  that existed at all times between Greek education and Greek social and political life, and to
  present the one as the reflection of the other. And this is no small advantage, since it is just
  from its relation to the whole of life that Greek education derives its chief interest for us. We
  can never, indeed, return to the purely political education of the Greeks; they themselves
  had to abandon that, and, since then,
  A boundless hope has passed across the earth—
  a hope which gives our education a meaning and a scope far wider than any that the State
  aims at; but in these days, when the State and the institution which embodies that hope are
  contending for the right to educate, it cannot but aid us in settling their respective claims, to
  follow the process by which they came to have distinct claims at all, and to see just what
  these mean. This process, the method which I have followed has, I hope, enabled me, in
  some degree, to bring into clearness. This, at all events, has been one of my chief aims.
  ...
  THOMAS DAVIDSON
  Glenmore,
  Keene, Essex Co., N.Y.
  October, 1891