ABSTRACT
What should the goals of education be? And how are they best achieved? Because our manuscripts of the Politics break off in the middle of what is itself no more than a preliminary discussion of education (1336b24-7),1 Aristotle’s answer to both questions, especially the latter, is unfortunately somewhat incomplete. What we are told, however, together with what we can glean from other writings, provides us with a vivid, though not always incontrovertible picture. We shall first focus on goals, then on means. But, of course, the two are closely related.
