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3. Plato's views of education are in several respects remarkable;

like the rest of the Republic they are partly Greek and partly

ideal, beginning with the ordinary curriculum of the Greek youth,

and extending to after-life. Plato is the first writer who

distinctly says that education is to comprehend the whole of

life, and to be a preparation for another in which education

begins again. This is the continuous thread which runs through

the Republic, and which more than any other of his ideas admits

of an application to modern life.