Great Books Ep 97. Aristophanes - The Clouds. The Commodification of Education

The protagonist goes to school with an intent to learn how to cheat and avoid paying debts rather than intellectual development.

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“So now, I prithee, teach him both your Logics,\ The Better, as you call it, and the Worse\ Which with the worse cause can defeat the Better;\ Or if not both, at all events the Worse. …

Give him the knack of reasoning down all Justice.”

~ ‘The Clouds’ by Aristophanes (Benjamin B. Rogers translation. GB5 - p. 499)

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