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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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There can be no doubt that children should be taught those useful things which are really necessary, but not all things, for occupations are divided into liberal and illiberal; and to young children should be imparted only such kinds of knowledge as will be useful to them without vulgarizing them.
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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383 BC
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321 BC
(aged 62)
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