Abstract
IT is to Greek thought that we first turn when we wish to consider any of the problems of ethics, education or politics, for in Greece we find the beginnings of Western culture. Although every day is disclosing that the Mycenaean, Minoan and Egyptian civilisations have all contributed to Greek development, yet the boast of Plato was not an empty one that whatever the Greeks acquired from foreigners they subsequently developed into something nobler.1
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Rusk, R.R., Scotland, J. (1979). Plato. In: Doctrines of the Great Educators. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16075-4_2
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