Book Review - School of Helis

Freeman writes about how as Athens began to mature there was what he called a period of juvenile Emancipation so the children no longer had to till the fields and work quite so hard. This Freeman said caused conservative thinkers to look back with longing and no doubt idealizing eyes to the good old times. He goes through a number of people including quotes from the wristophanes who pines for the times when children were seen and not heard indeed for three or four pages. Plato gets a mention because he complains that students are not sufficiently afraid of their school masters And instead the teacher flatters their students. Finally on page 74 in chapter 2 we come to it where Freeman writes and I quote