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Education in ancient Greece
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The state, however, seems never to have encouraged them further, than by assigning to some of them a particular place to teach in, which was sometimes done, too, by private donors. The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta, the founder of the Stoics. But Epicurus bequeathed his gardens to his own school.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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After about a hundred, or at most two hundred years if we exclude Homer, the genius of Hellas had ceased to flower or blossom. The dreary waste which follows, beginning with the Alexandrian writers and even before them in the platitudes of Isocrates and his school, spreads over much more than a thousand years. And from this decline the Greek language and literature, unlike the Latin, which has come to life in new…
Plato, Phaedrus
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But here it is important to remark that Pythagoras may be regarded as the first instructor in Greece who introduced the teachings of science; neither Thales, who was earlier than he, nor his contemporary Anaximander taught scientifically, but only imparted their ideas to their friends. There were, generally speaking, no sciences at that time; there was neither a science of philosophy, mathematics, jurisprudence or…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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- Isocrates
- Ancient Greek philosophy
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- Pythagoras
- Protagoras
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- Lyceum (classical)
- Socrates
- Pythagorean theorem
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