Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.