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Who said that “there are two periods into which education ought to be divided, according to the age of the child; the one is from his being seven years of age to the time of puberty; the other from puberty till he is twenty-one”?
a) Plato                                   
b) Socrates
c) Rousseau                
d) Aristotle

d

Who said that "No one can doubt that the magistrate ought greatly to interest himself in the care of youth; for where it is neglected it is hurtful to the city, for every state ought to be governed according to its particular nature; for the form and manners of each government are peculiar to itself; and these, as they originally established it, so they usually still preserve it”?
a) Plato                                   
b) Socrates
c) Aristotle                 
d) Rousseau    

c

Who revealed that "Every work is to be esteemed mean, and every art and every discipline which renders the body, the mind, or the understanding of freemen unfit for the habit and practice of virtue: for which reason all those arts which tend to deform the body are called mean, and all those employments which are exercised for gain; for they take off from the freedom of the mind and render it sordid."
a) Aristotle                
b) Rousseau
c) Plato                                   
d) None of these

a

Who points out that there are four things which it is usual to teach children; reading, gymnastic exercise, and music, to which (in the fourth place) some add painting?
a) Socrates                  
b) Aristotle
c) Plato                                   
d) None of these

b

What are both of them of singular use in life, and gymnastic exercise, as productive of courage?
a) Speaking and writing
b) Listening and reading
c) Reading and painting       
d) All of these

c

For what purpose music is used now?
a) pleasure                 
b) refreshment
c) both a and b
d) None of these

a