صفحة 307 من 1391

To the divisions of knowledge the stages of education partly

answer:-first, there is the early education of childhood and

youth in the fancies of the poets, and in the laws and customs of

the State;-then there is the training of the body to be a warrior

athlete, and a good servant of the mind;-and thirdly, after an

interval follows the education of later life, which begins with

mathematics and proceeds to philosophy in general.