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Of what value is arts education? (Symposium: arts education from past to present).(from the Republic, Book X, and Symposium)(Excerpt)

Arts Education Policy Review,  November, 2002  by Plato

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Editor's note: In the first dialogue below, the first speaker is Socrates, and the second, one of his followers, Glaucon. In the second, again the first speaker is Socrates, and the second is the "stranger woman" Diotima. 1. The Republic, Book X Of the many excellences which I perceive in the order of our State, there is none which upon reflection pleases me better than the rule about poetry.

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To what do you refer? To the rejection of imitative poetry, which certainly ought not to be received; as I see far more clearly now that the parts of the soul ...

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