The State and Education, an Historical and Critical Essay (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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With the Oriental nations of antiquity, the instruction of youth, as well as general cultivation, was intimately connected with religion, as means to an end. In India, Egypt, and Persia, the priests were the only supporters of learning, and devoted them selves exclusively to the instruction, not Of the whole people, but only of the sons of the privileged castes. Among the Jews, on the other hand, the instruction of the whole body of the youth was regarded as a national duty. In the case of none of these nations was there State education in the modern sense of the word; and the universal physical education in Persia must not be confounded with it, the instruction being usually confined within the limits of the family.

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