" There is a great difference between one who is learned and 

 one who is not, and between one who has been trained in 

 gymnastic exercises and one who has not been. Now the 

 rulers [of the Ideal State], male and female, should see to these 

 things; the women superintending the nursing and amuse- 

 ments of the children, and the men superintending their edu- 

 cation, that all of them, boys and girls alike, may be sound, 

 hand and foot, and may not spoil the gift of nature by bad 

 habits, in so far as this can be avoided." Plato. 



