Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
PlatoAnd once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.
PlatoYou cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.
Plato