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The Public School of Sparta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

T. Rutherford Harley
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A country probably gets the system of education it deserves. But lucky is that country where education is a natural growth and a tradition rather than the clean-cut system of an expert. Sparta very clearly followed a very ancient tradition—very ancient and very novel, as Xenophon says: παλαιοὶ ὄντες ἔτι καὶ νυ̃ν τοι̃ς ἄλλοις καινότατοί εἰσι—‘new ideals’ in education are usually the oldest.

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Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 3 , Issue 9 , May 1934 , pp. 129 - 139
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1934

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