IN undertaking to treat of Aristotle as the expounder of ancient educational ideas, I might,
with Kapp's Aristoteles' Staatspaedagogik before me, have made my task an easy one. I
might simply have presented in an orderly way and with a little commentary, what is to be
found on the subject of education in his various works—Politics, Ethics, Rhetoric, Poetics,
etc. I had two reasons, however, for not adopting this course: (1) that this work had been
done, better than I cou ...