“When I am in a Socratic mood and planning my Republic, I make drastic changes in the education of the sons of well-to-do-citizens. When they are sixteen or seventeen they begin to learn a craft and to do healthy manual labor, with plenty of poetry, songs, dancing, drill and gymnastics in their spare time. They can thus let off their steam on something useful. It is only when they are really thirsty for knowledge, longing to hear about things, that I would let them go to University. It would be a favour, a coveted privilege, only to be given to those who had either proved their worth in factory or field or whose qualities and zeal were pre-eminient.”
- Winston S. Churchill
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