Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
PlatoI exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
PlatoRemember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
Plato