Among the Homeric Greeks, as we have seen, education, being purely
practical, aiming only at making its subject "a speaker of words and a
doer of deeds," was in the actual intercourse and struggles of
life.
practical, aiming only at making its subject "a speaker of words and a
doer of deeds," was in the actual intercourse and struggles of
life.
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson
