ABSTRACT
Aristotle's views are to be found chiefly in his Politics, itself an interesting point; for it would occur to very few of our writers on politics to include in their works a detailed indication of what should be taught at each age to the children of their state, and yet education is indubitably political. In his discussion Aristotle continually says what he thinks is an appropriate education for a free man. A liberal education is one that helps to form the mind and indeed the personality so that this becomes possible. There is a generosity about men of liberal education. They are free from meanness about ideas and motives. To make a more thorough study of it one would have to pay attention to all sorts of components in the total social and educational picture, some close to, some farther from, the original Aristotelian conception of the right education for the leisured free man.
