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That I will endeavour to explain, I replied. To keep watch-dogs,

who, from want of discipline or hunger, or some evil habit or

other, would turn upon the sheep and worry them, and behave not

like dogs but wolves, would be a foul and monstrous thing in a

shepherd?

Truly monstrous, he said.

And therefore every care must be taken that our auxiliaries,

being stronger than our citizens, may not grow to be too much for

them and become savage tyrants instead of friends and allies?

Yes, great care should be taken.

And would not a really good education furnish the best safeguard?

But they are well-educated already, he replied.

I cannot be so confident, my dear Glaucon, I said; I am much more

certain that they ought to be, and that true education, whatever

that may be, will have the greatest tendency to civilize and

humanize them in their relations to one another, and to those who

are under their protection.

Very true, he replied.