[536e]
“a free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly; for while
bodily labors1 performed under constraint
do not harm the body, nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the
mind.” “True,” he said. “Do not, then,
my friend, keep children to their studies by compulsion
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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