"... political science is not a proper study for the young. The young man (I guess I, though not Aristotle, could include woman here, ed.) is not versed in the practical business of life from which politics draws its premises and its data. He is, besides, swayed by his feelings, with the result that he will make no headway and derive no benefit from a study the end of which is not knowing but doing."
I wonder what he'd think of the values espoused in today's great work of citizenship/ duty literature.
I refer, of course, to The Princess Diaries .
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it's amazing how often those two works intertwine...
Your fellow old man on a park bench says:
Aristotle said that. He thought a lot.
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