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THE aim of this important book, by Prof. R. C. Lodge, of the University of Manitoba, is to meet the needs of students of educational theory, "of those who are interested in Plato as thinker and who find in him a standing challenge to their own powers of thought, and of that wider group who are seeking to enlarge their own vision". The author considers Plato as writer, teacher, and thinker who believed that in the balanced philosophic life is to be found the solution of all human problems. Prof. Lodge fulfils his promise in twelve admirably written chapters. Turn where you will in these chapters, and you are struck by their freshness, clearness and vitality. He writes as a scholar, but not for scholars only. As to the bibliography, a British reader naturally expects to find certain names, and he does find the names of Nettleship and A. E. Taylor. But he wonders why no mention is made of Bernard Bosanquet, the distinguished author of "A Companion to Plato‘s Republic" and of "The Education of the Young in the Republic of Plato", published in 1900. There was good reason for omitting R. H. S. Crossman‘s "Plato Today" (1937), which is too exclusively British in its outlook to attract an American writer. Some of the British books mentioned by Prof. Lodge, though important in their own way, contain only bare references to Plato. For this there may be good reasons ; but their inclusion looks rather odd.
Plato‘s Theory of Education
Prof.
R. C.
Lodge
By. With an Appendix on The Education of Women According to Plato, by Rabbi Solomon Frank. (International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.) Pp. viii + 322. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1947.) 18s. net.
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Plato‘s Theory of Education. Nature 161, 376 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161376a0
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