Motif
Corruption of gifted nature through bad education
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A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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The Republic BOOK III. / BOOK IV. / BOOK V. / BOOK VI.; lines 17662-17790 confidence: high
Socrates asks whether gifted minds become especially bad when ill-educated and whether great crimes arise from a full nature ruined by education; Adeimantus agrees.
The passage states that the greatest natural gifts can become the greatest evils when education ruins them.
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