“Then they send them to the master of gymnastic, in order that their bodies may better minister to the virtuous mind, and they may not be compelled through bodily weakness to play the coward in war or on any other occasion. This is what is done by those who have the means, and those who have the means are the rich; their children begin to go to school soonest and leave off latest.”
Plato, Protagoras (4th century B.C.)
[translated by Benjamin Jowett].
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