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Education in music. (Symposium: arts education from past to present).

Arts Education Policy Review,  May, 2002  by Aristotle

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The selections below are from Book VIII of Benjamin Jowett's 1885 translation of Aristotle's Politics (classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/Politics, html). But why, one might ask, does Aristotle deal with arts education in a book on politics? Here is an answer. Aristotle famously said that man is a "political animal" ("ho anthropos phusei politikon zoion," or "the human being by nature is a political animal" [Politics, 1253]).

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But this has little to do with "politics" as we have come to think of the term--elections, power struggles, debates over ...

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