Education according to Aristotle
A common education creates a community and unifies a state.
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"The deficiencies of nature are what art and education seek to fill up." - Aristotle, Politics
Aristotle wrote about education in Nicomachean Ethics and, more extensively, in Politics. For him, the education of young people was tied to the constitution of the state (or nation in modern-day U.S. terms) and was the obligation of the state. He valued the family as its own private unit separate from the state, and warned against unifying a country in all respects to the point where citizens were in lock-step rather than living in harmony. But he thought it important to unify the state, which he describes as a plurality, to some degree to create a community, one of the means being through a common education system.