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Aristotle considered human nature, habit and reason to be equally important forces to be
cultivated in education, the ultimate aim of which should be to produce good and virtuous
citizens. He proposed that teachers lead their students systematically, and that repetition
be used as a key tool to develop good habits, unlike Socrates' emphasis on questioning
his listeners to bring out their own ideas. He emphasized the balancing of the theoretical
and practical aspects of subjects taught, among which he explicitly mentions reading.
writing, mathematics, music, physical education, literature, history, and a wide range of
sciences, as well as play, which he also considered important.
During the Medieval period, the idea of Perennialism was first formulated by St. Thomas
Aquinas in his work "De Magistro". Perennialism holds that one should teach those things
deemed to be of everlasting importance to all people everywhere, namely principles and
reasoning, not just facts (which are apt to change over time), and that one should teach
first about people, not machines or techniques. It was originally religious in nature, and it
was only much later that a theory of secular perennialism developed.
During the Renaissance, the French skeptic Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) was on
of the first to critically look at education. Unusually for his time, Montaigne was willing to
question the conventional wisdom of the period, calling into question the whole
what is the main idea of this paragraph​

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Answered by elissaralsakka
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Answer:

The main idea of this paragraph is to inform the reader of what Aristotle believed was to be equally important forces to be cultivated into education. Later on in the paragraph, it speaks of other subjects that were important as well.  

Explanation:

I'm not sure if this is entirely right but I guess you would still get some good marks on this

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