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Aristotle, like Plato, was much concerned with education as a political issue and with the problem of stability and the avoidance of revolution. For him, education, and moral education, in particular, was not the imparting of theoretical expertise, but a training in good habits. An appeal to such a higher moral order, or "ideal," was attractive to educators in medieval Europe, and the church and state became inextricably bound, one aspect complementing the other.
Aristotle was a much more practical and scientific teacher than Plato. He was able to formulate the principles of logic which were later taken over to the great schools of Alexandria and were later utilized by Euclid in his geometry. Although more practical in thought than Plato, Aristotle, too, was an idealist. His discussions on the nature of the mind were the bases of the psychology and much of the theology of this time. As Weimer (1962) wrote, "Aristotle's Ethics proves that he realized more clearly than Plato that knowledge and insight lead to moral action only when aptitude and atti
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