Their initial education is in elementary mathematics, music, and poetry, accompanied by physical training. After this comes two or three years of mili
Their initial education is in elementary mathematics, music, and poetry, accompanied by physical training. After this comes two or three years of military service, followed by ten years of learning mathematical science. The best of these then learn five years of training in dialectic, and then finally the best of these receive a full fifteen years of practical political training. This describes the education of, for ten points, what ideal ruler described in Plato's _Republic_?
Their initial education is in elementary mathematics, music, and poetry, accompanied by physical training.
{PHILOSOPHER KINGS}